Getting OPNsense firewall logs into Grafana via syslog-ng, Promtail, and Loki sounds straightforward. Three silent failure points will stop it from working and give you no error to debug.

Three months of homelab expansion, adding k3s, new storage, local AI, and forgetting to clean up what I was no longer using added $500 to my electricity bill. Here is how I found it and fixed it.

Google Analytics felt wrong. I self-host everything else so why am I sending my readers' data to Google? Here is how I set up Umami on my Oracle VM.

VLANs broke my Syncthing setup. Global discovery off, relay off, and Syncthing had no idea where my devices were. Here is how I fixed it.

Docker containers couldn't resolve DNS despite correct daemon.json config. The real culprit was Pi-hole's leftover nftables rules redirecting all DNS traffic to a closed port.

Zsh prompt duplicating and nano rendering broken when SSH-ing from Ghostty into a remote server. Root cause was a terminal type mismatch. Fixed with one environment variable.

Store your SSH public keys on GitHub and provision any new Linux server with one command using ssh-import-id-gh. No manual key copying needed.

How to install Proxmox VE on an old PC and run essential post-installation configuration using the Proxmox community helper scripts. Turn spare hardware into a home server.

A step-by-step guide to installing Arch Linux manually — from disk partitioning and mounting to bootloader setup — without using the archinstall script.

How to install Docker on Linux using the official apt repository and configure user group permissions so you can run containers without sudo.