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Practical notes from a real homelab — Linux, Docker, self-hosted systems, and AI on edge hardware. I write about what I've actually verified in production, not theory.
A practical guide to a stable local AI camera system with Frigate and the Orange Pi 5 (RK3588 NPU) — built on real, long-running production use, not a weekend experiment.
Read articleHow Mímir came to be — a personal chronicle of a daily log, build notes, and a checklist over an API — and why the rule "also write it down in a .md file" kept reliably failing, until it became mechanically enforced.
Read articleMidgardOps — in development, internally under the working codename Heimdall — is an operations center for the whole homelab, built on one rule: 'verify it for real, not just in theory.' The story of a project in progress, not a finished product.
Read articleA real diary of a multi-day migration to Pop!_OS 24.04 with full disk encryption — from BusyBox on the third reboot, through subvolume hell in Timeshift, to a hibernation bug that only one specific command could fix, not the obvious one.
Read articleA real story from an Orange Pi 5 — dirty boots and a kernel panic looked like a software bug, but it turned out to be two independent hardware problems at once.
Read articleA weekly full-disk backup via dd worked for years. It kept working even after it became ten times bigger than it needed to be. What moving to a deduplicated, verified backup looks like — plus an off-site copy on top.
Read articleThe Slovak IPTV service Magio GO has no official bridge to Jellyfin. What the road from finding an existing open-source solution to months of chasing down details, until it actually played reliably, looks like.
Read articleWhy enrolling a FIDO2 key into LUKS isn't enough, and what the real path to unlocking a disk with a touch of a hardware key looks like — through the Plymouth splash screen, dracut vs. initramfs-tools, and the systemd ask-password agent.
Read articleA dock sometimes fails to bring up all monitors, a laptop sometimes won't power off. Both are random and can't be reproduced on demand — instead of debugging by hand after the fact, a tool was built to wait and collect evidence ahead of time.
Read articleA homelab app that started as a side effect of routine maintenance — and within a few days grew into a sandboxed, tested, security-reviewed tool ready to go public on GitHub.
Read articleA self-hosted document archive with AI extraction instead of plain OCR — from a silent bug that was losing mail, to a final pre-launch screenshot that nearly revealed more than it should have.
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