5d ago · 9 min read · So I wanted to build a NAS, and I didn't want to spend Synology money on it. Their 4-bay boxes run $800+ and you're still locked into their weird proprietary ecosystem where everything works fine unti
Join discussionMay 7 · 2 min read · I spent an entire afternoon debugging a VM that refused to boot, only to find out my GPU had decided to change its PCI address. One reboot and the device that lived at 01:00.0 suddenly migrated to 02:00.0. Because my Proxmox VM configuration was pinn...
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May 5 · 3 min read · sysctl: setting key "net.ipv4.ip_local_port_range": Permission denied I saw this error while trying to tune the network stack for a high-concurrency service running in Docker, which itself was hosted inside an unprivileged LXC container on Proxmox. T...
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May 4 · 4 min read · Services today are getting more invasive while becoming more expensive. At some point, I figured it might be worth trying to host a few things myself instead. But self-hosting comes with its own set o
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Apr 30 · 20 min read · Virtual machines are a great way to isolate applications, but managing the lifecycle of a VM is often done manually. In this post, I am going to show you how to manage an entire VM using Vagrant. By t
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Apr 25 · 9 min read · I didn't start this project because I'm a developer. I started it because my daughter needed homework help at 9pm and I couldn't always be there, and every AI tool I could find was either locked behin
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