Home-Lab

My home network serves four separate humans, two cats, a Nintendo Switch, three streaming devices, a NAS, a homelab in the closet, and an unreasonable number of Raspberry Pis. It also serves a PlayStation 5 that’s downloading a 90GB game update at 9 PM, while my wife is on a work call from the kitchen, while I’m restarting a service I broke twenty minutes ago. None of these things are hard individually. All of them at once is how you end up with a router you want to throw out of a window. This is how I keep it all working. ...

I wanted a personal AI assistant. Not a chatbot. Not a copilot. Something that actually does things — controls my desktop, reads my screen, talks to my smart home, answers questions in Finnish or English, and never, ever sends my data to a server I don’t control. The cloud options are good. They’re not mine. So I started building one. This post is the architecture document for that project. It’s a work in progress — the docker-compose is ready, the Ollama instance is running, and the first agent is next. I’m writing this because the design decisions are interesting, and because someone else might want to build the same thing. ...

Title: Setting Up a Home Lab: A Beginner’s Guide Description Learn how to build your first home lab for learning DevOps, containerization, and system administration. This practical guide covers hardware recommendations, essential software, and step-by-step setup instructions. Slug setting-up-home-lab-beginners-guide Content (Markdown) Setting Up a Home Lab: A Beginner’s Guide Why Build a Home Lab? Before diving into the technical details, let’s understand why a home lab is invaluable for system administrators and DevOps engineers: ...