#homelab
11 posts
2026 - October
1 post2026 - April
1 post2026 - March
1 post2026 - February
1 post2025 - September
4 posts2025 - April
2 posts2024 - April
1 post2026 - October
1 postDisaster on My NAS! How I Almost Lost 90 TB of Data
I swapped one drive in my Synology DS1821+ and woke up the next day with two critical drives in an array that only survives losing one. This is the post-mortem, still in progress: why SHR-1 wasn't enough, the warning DSM never sent, the R$ 185 thousand for a QNAP bought in a hurry in Brazil against about US$ 11.5 thousand in the US, the new RAID-6 setup on ZFS, and copying 90 TB at 400 MB/s.
2026 - April
1 postBitcoin on the Home Server: Sovereignty and Privacy with Coldcard, Sparrow and Fulcrum
I built a home Bitcoin stack with Coldcard, Sparrow, Fulcrum, and bitcoind: offline keys, private queries, and my own broadcast. It takes work, but gives me more control over custody and operations.
2026 - March
1 postMigrating my Home Server with Claude Code | openSUSE MicroOS
I migrated 49 containers from Ubuntu to openSUSE MicroOS with Claude Code’s help, reorganizing Docker, NFS, ROCm, backups, and SELinux. Automation sped things up, but architecture and validation stayed human.
2026 - February
1 postVibe Code: I Built a Mega Clone in Rails in 1 Day for My Home Server
Building FrankMega, a self-hosted Mega.nz clone in Rails 8, in a single day with Claude Code, and why experience still matters in vibe coding.
2025 - September
4 postsOmarchy 2.0 - Bitwarden Self-Hosted / VaultWarden
Self-hosting a Bitwarden-compatible password manager with VaultWarden on a home server, routed through a Cloudflare tunnel, with 2FA via Aegis.
Installing Grafana on My Home Server
How I set up Grafana, Prometheus, and cAdvisor with Docker Compose to monitor my Intel NUC home server.
Protecting Your Home Server with Cloudflare Zero Trust
How I added a Cloudflare Zero Trust login layer on top of my home server services, using Google OAuth as the identity provider.
Accessing My Home Server With a Real Domain
An advanced guide to exposing a Docker-based home server through Cloudflare Tunnels with a real domain and proper HTTPS.
2025 - April
2 postsAccessing Your NAS Using iSCSI Instead of SMB
Why I moved my Docker data-root off NFS and onto an iSCSI virtual drive served from my Synology NAS, and how block-level storage crushes file-based protocols for high-churn workloads.
Configuring My Synology NAS with NFS on Linux
How I switched from SMB to NFS to mount my Synology DS1821+ shares on Linux with proper ownership and permissions, plus the UID/GID gotcha along the way.
2024 - April
1 postMy "Personal Netflix" with Docker Compose
I built a personal library with Docker Compose, MakeMKV, HandBrake, qBittorrent, Sonarr, Radarr, Prowlarr and Plex. Plex is polished and practical, but PGS subtitles broke playback.