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.
Running parallel Claude Code sessions with git worktrees
How git worktrees let multiple Claude Code sessions work on the same repo at once, and the gotchas: shared stash stacks, detached HEAD, and branch locks.
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.
July
Office EU: a European alternative to Microsoft 365
Office EU launched in March 2026 as a fully European cloud productivity suite. Here is what it actually is, what it runs on, and whether it is worth switching.
Exposing a local RAG server to claude.ai without opening a port
How I wired a self-hosted RAG server into claude.ai as a custom connector using Cloudflare Access, service tokens, and an OAuth portal, no port forwarding.
June
Self-hosting Trigger.dev v4 on an ARM64 board
Running Trigger.dev v4 on a 7.4 GB ARM64 board alongside a dozen other services. What works, what eats memory, and how to survive ClickHouse.
Building a memory compiler for Claude Code
How I built a nightly pipeline that compiles raw Claude Code session logs into structured knowledge articles, stored in pgvector and mirrored to Obsidian.
March
Replacing Obsidian with pgvector: docs that live in the database
How I deleted 120 Obsidian markdown files and moved all internal docs into a local pgvector RAG system, with a rag_save MCP tool for direct ingestion.
Building a local RAG system as persistent memory for Claude Code
How I built a local multimodal RAG with pgvector, Gemini embeddings, and an MCP server so Claude Code can search past sessions and internal docs on demand.