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.
Website: https://fifthdread.com/
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.
Covers security news for people who run their own servers and care about privacy, including supply-chain attacks, runtime vulnerabilities and forensic tooling. It separates verified facts from rumour and explains what each issue means for readers and which fixes to apply.
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.
A personal technical blog by Sascha Corti covering hands-on projects such as storing PGP and SSH keys on a subdermal NFC implant and running open-weight AI models on home hardware. Readers get detailed, step-by-step write-ups including mistakes and configuration details, plus reasoned opinions on when to use open models.
One short email a week with hand-picked newsletters from the index. Free, no spam, unsubscribe anytime.
