Why I moved my homelab jobs from cron to systemd timers
Cron silently skips jobs missed during downtime. Systemd timers vs cron: Persistent=true, OnCalendar scheduling, journald logs, and real service dependencies.
2026
November
October
PXE booting Omarchy without taking over your router's DHCP
How to PXE boot an Arch based installer like Omarchy on a home LAN with dnsmasq proxy DHCP, GRUB netboot and nginx, without replacing your router's DHCP.
Why my Claude Code status line is 1,500 lines of bash
Building a custom Claude Code status line in bash: the stdin JSON contract, caching slow checks, Docker health over SSH, and bash 3.2 compatibility quirks.
September
Flagging ad and tracker domains with an LLM before they hit my blocklist
A dry-run daily job that asks an LLM whether a domain seen by AdGuard Home or privoxy looks like an ad or tracker, before any blocklist ever gets touched.
Auditing my own homelab backup script
A homelab backup strategy audit: what a self-hosted backup script actually protects, what it leaves in plaintext, and why a second LAN box is not offsite.
Building a Claude Code agent for a self-hosted network controller
How I wrapped a self-hosted Omada network controller's undocumented REST API in a shell script and turned it into a Claude Code agent for daily network checks.
Self-hosting a password manager with Vaultwarden and a Cloudflare Tunnel
How I run Vaultwarden, a self-hosted password manager compatible with Bitwarden clients, on my home server behind a Cloudflare Tunnel with no open ports.