Over the past couple of years I've been working on and off with my nephew on a project to create a J.A.R.V.I.S.-style personal assistant (from the Iron Man movies). Before LLM's, this started ...

I recently moved and due to some convenience factors, I found myself drinking a lot more caffeine than I had in the past. This seemed to be affecting my sleep. I was curious how much caffeine I wa...

In present day it's pretty common to use GitHub Actions to do your builds and deployments. However, for a hobbyist looking for a free solution, the free tier of GitHub Actions is limited to 2000 mi...

There are many reasons you might need to have a public-facing server. You might want to host a website, run a game server, or just have a place to store your files. Whatever the reason, it's import...

I started my journey sort of backwards, where I started with a backend up on supabase.com, and I'm now learning how to use it locally. The point of this post is to document the steps I took to get ...

This post is for a very specific niche, but also just so I have it documented somewhere. In the world of midrange and mainframe computers, particularly from the Golden Age of computing in the 1970'...

One annoying aspect of setting up a homelab is what to do about SSL certificates. If you use self-signed certificates, then you have to deal with browser warnings. Also, many system-to-system servi...

Although there are several options for Security Information Management (SIM) and Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) solutions, the Elastic Stack (ELK) is one of the most popular. ...

Networking and storage are the two most important components of any virtualization platform. In this post, we will configure networking and storage on our Proxmox server. Although some people will ...

The foundation of my homelab is Proxmox, an open-source virtualization platform that allows me to run virtual machines and containers on my hardware. In this post, I'll walk through the installatio...