Every post

Compose files, dashboards, and the deploy flow that keeps a homelab's containers from rotting. Start here if you are new to Compose, then move on to the tooling that manages multiple hosts.

Reaching your homelab from outside your own network, safely — Cloudflare Tunnel for publishing an app to the internet without opening a port, and Tailscale for a private mesh between your own devices. Start with the comparison if you are not sure which one you need.

A complete, self-hosted Plex/Jellyfin-adjacent media pipeline — Sonarr and Radarr for the library, a downloader behind a VPN, Prowlarr for indexers, Seerr for requests, Bazarr for subtitles, and Profilarr for quality. Read the pillar guide first for how the pieces fit together, then follow the series in order.

Self-hosted recipe managers — Mealie and Tandoor deployed and compared honestly, including what does and does not survive migrating between them.

DSM-specific fixes: Virtual Machine Manager's USB passthrough behavior, Wake-on-LAN from Home Assistant, and other NAS-specific quirks that generic Docker or Linux advice does not cover.

Home Assistant dashboards, automations, and the experiments running on top of them — simulating a home battery against real smart-meter data, letting an AI assistant edit YAML directly, and a tour of the mobile-first dashboard actually used every day.

EV charging at home, including the ERE certificate scheme for MID-certified chargers in the Netherlands and pulling that data into your own monitoring.