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.
Website: https://chriskirby.net/
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.
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