A personal blog by Paul Gustavsen covering a grab-bag of topics, including a speculative look at a Final Fantasy XVI achievement as a Bill O'Reilly reference, a 2026 homelab review with hardware and cost breakdowns, and a desk setup tour. The writing is conversational and self-aware, mixing tech hobbyist detail with cultural observations.
Website: https://blog.gustavsen.me/
Detailed first-person field notes on running a homelab, covering self-hosted NetBird upgrades and backups, Docker network segmentation, and Home Assistant energy cost modelling. Readers get concrete configurations, scripts, and the reasoning behind each decision.
A homelab blog documenting the build of a production Kubernetes cluster on TuringPi hardware with Talos Linux, covering migrations, monitoring and secret management in detail. Readers get worked examples, real failures and the reasoning behind each design decision.
Technical blog-style newsletter covering Citrix, NetScaler, Entra ID single sign-on and a personal Proxmox/Kubernetes homelab. Readers get practical infrastructure guidance with requirements, caveats and migration reasoning.
Hands-on technical tutorials on homelab infrastructure and automation, including running a Proxmox QDevice on Unraid and a multi-part Ansible series. Readers get step-by-step instructions with explanations of why things break and how to fix them.
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