Homelab

Mathias Palmersheim brings enterprise monitoring discipline home and runs his homelab against an actual SLA.

I finally retired WordPress and rebuilt the site in Hugo over a weekend, with an AI agent handling the grunt work and me catching it when it went sideways. Here’s the honest version — including the facepalms.

I spent three days on the expo floor at Open Source Summit 2026 in Minneapolis with Howard Van Der Wal and Stephen Simpson, and it was one of the better events we have done this year.

Josh Lacey of Keep It Techie and I break down the real cost-benefit of running a homelab and whether it’s time to bring the lab home.

Episode 54 of the Fedora Podcast is out, and this one digs into something I am genuinely curious about for my own homelab: what does bootc look like when someone is actually running it day to day…

I open 2026 with a reality check on subscription fatigue and kick off a new arc on building a personal homelab.

A solo look back at how I broke into system administration and how the sysadmin role has changed over the years.

Aaron Honeycutt breaks down NixOS, declarative configuration, and how to get started without pulling your hair out.

I wanted to run AI locally on Fedora using an Nvidia GPU I had sitting in my Dell PowerEdge R730 — and an hour and a half later, I actually got it working. Here’s what the road looked like.

The goal was simple: build a reusable Fedora golden image homelab template I can clone whenever I need a new server. Nothing about it was simple.

A Dell PowerEdge R730 that’s been sitting in the rack collecting dust finally has a job: and this stream is the whole messy process of giving it one.

The WordPress migration homelab project that started as a quick detour turned into a two-hour deep dive — because nothing in the homelab ever goes exactly to plan.