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A hobbyist's blog of home-lab experiments: a local AI song-generation pipeline (Tuneage) running on integrated GPUs, and a LoRa radio mesh setup using Reticulum and an RNode. Posts are detailed, first-person, and include concrete configs, measurements and hardware constraints.
Noted reviews self-hosted and open-source software for homelabs, with each issue walking through a specific tool, how it works, and how to deploy it. Readers get practical setup guidance, design trade-offs, and an honest look at the maintenance burden that comes with running your own services.
Short, first-person security notes covering newly disclosed vulnerabilities, patch targets and incident write-ups. Each issue gives the affected versions, who is exposed and a concise list of actions to take.
Arctian is a personal newsletter from a homelab enthusiast covering developer tools, self-hosting, and detailed write-ups of technical problems. Recent issues cover using an AI agent to triage a certificate authority compromise across a homelab, a podcast appearance about a mobile testing tool, and how to keep a discontinued Drobo NAS running after its vendor's servers went offline.
Sascha Bajonczak's blog covers enterprise integrations, AI, developer workflows and homelab builds, with hands-on write-ups of DIY hardware and practical IT archiving. Readers get concrete project walkthroughs and a considered take on how to describe human and AI contributions to content.
Practical tutorials and reviews for Cambridge IGCSE Computer Science students and homelab enthusiasts, covering logic gates, Linux desktops, security and self-hosting. Readers get step-by-step explanations with worked examples and real test-system details.
Hands-on Linux tutorials on running and tuning local AI inference hardware, covering AMD GPU profiling, storage caching and GPU power management. Posts include concrete commands, configurations and cost figures from the author's own multi-GPU rig.
A self-hosted homelab newsletter written from a mobile rig, covering DIY infrastructure, Docker update tooling, and the risks of AI agents running unattended systems. Issues mix personal narrative with practical lessons and a bit of nostalgic humour about old computing tech.
Field notes from a homelab Kubernetes operator covering zero trust access, container registry caching and self-hosted object storage. Each post explains the problem, the chosen tools and the practical gotchas of the deployment.
A hands-on series by Ali Shaikh on running a home Proxmox and Ansible lab, covering quorum and QDevice setup, Ansible Vault secrets, and templated configuration with safe staged rollouts. Readers get step-by-step commands, reasoning behind the design choices, and practical production-minded advice.
A personal tech blog with first-person write-ups of debugging war stories and homelab experiences, covering self-hosted AI, PostgreSQL permissions and Linux. Readers get detailed narratives of what went wrong and how it was diagnosed.
A personal technical blog covering hands-on electronics and homelab builds alongside write-ups of NLP research and conference sessions. Readers get detailed build notes with parts lists, wiring and firmware, plus critical summaries of academic papers and panels.
A personal blog covering home emergency preparedness, backup power and homelab infrastructure, written from hands-on experience on the Gulf Coast. Posts detail equipment choices, costs and lessons learned, including what did not work.
A personal blog-style newsletter by Braedach mixing commentary on Australian news, such as unpaid superannuation and AI-driven cyberattacks, with long technical write-ups. Its standout content is hands-on homelab guidance, including a detailed review of the Zoraxy reverse proxy with pros, cons and real traffic analysis.
Technodabbler is a hobbyist technology newsletter covering hands-on builds such as 3D-printed small-form-factor PCs, NAS and homelab software comparisons, and gaming-related charity streams. Readers get practical project write-ups with hardware details, testing notes and an informal, personal voice.
Self Hosted Home UK is a personal newsletter covering Linux, homelabs, self-hosting and tech. Recent issues include a first-person account of solo mining Bitcoin Cash and DigiByte with a Bitaxe, reflections on cloud resilience after a Google Cloud outage, and an analysis of hardware wallet failures.
A personal technical blog covering practical Linux, Kubernetes and homelab troubleshooting, such as diagnosing expired OpenShift ingress certificates and recovering Longhorn volumes on a single-node RKE2 cluster. It also includes guides like running DCS World on Linux Mint with head tracking.
A German-language homelab blog by r0k covering self-hosted infrastructure: wildcard Let's Encrypt certificates for internal services, a central LiteLLM endpoint for local AI inference, and running local LLM agents on AMD GPUs. Readers get concrete, reproducible configs and setup walkthroughs, though the posts are written in English despite the German-sounding domain.
Greg's blog-style newsletter covers IT administration and homelab topics, including Veeam Data Cloud monitoring, reporting, and Microsoft 365 testing tools. Readers get hands-on walkthroughs of setting up Grafana dashboards, SIEM event integrations, and MCP-based reports, along with product release updates.
Chris Kirby, an engineering leader, writes practical walkthroughs on homelab networking, DNS high availability, and agentic AI development tooling. The newsletter offers hands-on technical guides and his personal reasoning about building tools for cost-effective AI-assisted coding.
A personal newsletter featuring short, opinionated write-ups of cult and notable films, with details on country, director, cast and genre. It also carries occasional site updates about the author's homelab, streaming and open-licensing plans.
A personal blog by David covering self-hosting, home automation, software development and homelab projects. It walks through practical builds such as local smart shutters with Home Assistant, self-hosted live TV with EPG setup, and choosing a self-hosted blogging platform.
A personal blog-style newsletter from a middle-aged UK IT enthusiast covering homelab builds, Home Assistant and smart home troubleshooting, plus life and travel musings. Readers get irreverent, self-deprecating accounts of projects with some practical technical detail.
A personal homelab blog with step-by-step guides for setting up self-hosted infrastructure such as pfSense, Technitium DNS and Linux installs. Readers get practical configuration details, version-specific tips and the author's reasoning behind their choices.
Jason Tucker's blog covers homelab tech, automation and self-hosting with practical write-ups on tools like Immich and Quartermaster. Readers get firsthand reviews, hardware decisions explained from real setups, and interviews with developers in the self-hosting space.
A personal tech blog with short, hands-on posts covering home lab setup, smart home configuration and LLM usage limits. Readers get step-by-step fixes and test notes based on the author's own hardware.
Alec Di Vito's blog covers his homelab, self-hosting and personal programming projects, from building a RAG chat agent for a Ghost blog to Rust/WebAssembly games and GitOps update automation. Readers get hands-on, first-person walkthroughs of tools and design decisions they can reproduce.
Short, practical tips from a homelab and Linux desktop user covering Ansible, Paperless-ngx and KDE Dolphin. Each issue gives working configuration snippets and commands, along with the pitfalls the author ran into.
Jim Gogarty, a self-hosting enthusiast, writes practical posts about his home lab, covering a Plex-to-Jellyfin migration for free GPU transcoding, a methodical troubleshooting walkthrough for a Vaultwarden issue, and a multi-part guide to building a home SIEM with the Elastic Stack. Readers get hands-on, candid detail on self-hosting and security tooling, including the snags he hit along the way.
A personal blog with short posts on hobby projects such as a home PC and server build, geospatial mapping of Macau bus stop walkability, and a tracker of Ontario 400-series highways driven. Readers get first-hand project notes with parts lists, tools used and links to results.
A personal tech blog from a self-hoster who writes about running home servers, such as NGINX Proxy Manager with Docker Swarm and host networking, and recovering a failed NAS. Posts are first-person, practical, and informal, with occasional notes on personal site housekeeping.
A hands-on guide to exposing homelab services such as a Ghost blog and a Minecraft server through Cloudflare Tunnels, without opening router ports. It walks through domain setup, tunnel creation, public hostname routing and DNS records.
Jorge Castro's blog-style newsletter mixes open source commentary, homelab tinkering with Flatcar Linux and Universal Blue, and personal opinions on email, careers and Linux desktops. Readers get opinionated takes and practical notes on Linux tooling, delivered in a casual, irreverent voice.
A personal tech blog by a developer and homelab hobbyist covering Blender community projects, self-hosted tools and hands-on experiments. Readers get first-person project write-ups, including the sale and revival of Blend Swap and a local AI notes setup.
Practical step-by-step guides for self-hosting and homelab tools, including Docker deployments of Dashy and Dockhand and monitoring UPS hardware with NUT. Each issue walks through installation, configuration commands and troubleshooting pitfalls.
A self-hosted Linux and homelab blog by an Alaskan sysadmin, with hands-on tutorials on Nebula VPN management, Frigate NVR installation, and Tailscale with Traefik and PowerDNS. Readers get step-by-step, command-level guides for self-hosting and networking projects.
Bitby Systems is a technical blog-style newsletter with step-by-step guides on running software on Linux, building drivers in containers, and self-hosting applications. Each issue walks through concrete commands and configuration files, with notes on the author's own workarounds and troubleshooting.
A personal blog by a developer documenting homelab self-hosting, Docker, Ghost, and personal technology choices, with reflections on AI in Windows and ActivityPub federation. Readers get practical notes on running a home server and a candid, low-key take on their tech habits.
A personal homelab blog by a Greek self-hoster documenting Home Assistant voice control in Greek, a GoToSocial Fediverse setup, and Janitor, a tool for monitoring Zigbee device connectivity over MQTT. Each post includes working docker-compose files and configuration details.
A personal homelab and tech blog with step-by-step technical write-ups of the author's own projects and experiments. Recent posts cover running Conky as a systemd service, programming an Elegoo robot car with VSCode, and building OpenCV with CUDA in Docker.
Make It Work is a video show where hosts pair discussion with live screen-sharing demos of practical infrastructure work such as CDNs, homelabs and CI/CD. Recent issues cover building a global CDN purge system with Elixir and Varnish, solving TLS backend limitations for a minimal CDN, and touring a Kubernetes homelab with troubleshooting.
A personal blog by a cybersecurity analyst and hobby developer documenting their homelab setup, daily tech gear, and a Minecraft server network tutorial. Readers get concrete, hands-on details on self-hosting, network configuration, and running Velocity-based Minecraft servers.
A personal tech blog with practical, step-by-step guides on self-hosting, networking and Windows administration. Readers get concrete configuration details such as server monitoring setup, UniFi router settings for UK ISPs, and installing Windows Server on ARM hardware.
A personal blog by a developer covering homelab setup, security, and technical walkthroughs. Readers get step-by-step guides such as deploying Let's Encrypt certificates and Pi-hole on Proxmox, a Hack the Box penetration testing writeup, and configuring SSL for EJBs on Wildfly.
A personal tech blog newsletter covering homelab projects such as Kubernetes on Raspberry Pi clusters and WireGuard tunnels, plus tooling for endurance sports data like Garmin ANT+ sensors. Readers get hands-on, first-person build write-ups with hardware lists and reasoning behind the choices.
A homelab and self-hosting newsletter offering tutorials on Proxmox, Docker, n8n, Pi-hole and security hardening, plus hardware reviews such as 10GbE switches and migration guides like moving to Vaultwarden. Readers get practical, first-person build notes for running their own stack.
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