A personal blog documenting hands-on homelab and automotive projects, including a single-node Ansible Automation Platform install on RHEL 9 and a Ford 4R75E transmission teardown and rebuild. Posts are practical walkthroughs with commands, parts lists and photos from the author's own work.
Website: https://thoatt.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.
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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