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What this is
This is a home lab — a small collection of always-on computers I run at home for learning, tinkering, and running useful services for myself, my household, and a few friends. It started as a way to sharpen skills I use professionally (infrastructure, automatio...
What it can do
A rough tour of what runs in the lab, in plain terms: Media. A personal media server so my household can watch our own library on any screen in the house, plus a self-service way for the household to add to it. (If you have an account, the other books here cov...
How it's kept safe
People are sometimes surprised that a home setup can be run responsibly, so here's the philosophy in non-technical terms: The front door is tiny. The vast majority of the lab is reachable only from inside my own network. The few things friends can reach from o...
Why bother?
A fair question, since most of this replaces things you could get for free or cheap from a big company. A few honest reasons: Privacy. The voice assistant, the automation, and the AI all run at home. That's genuinely rare, and it's worth something to me that t...
Does this cost anything?
No, and it never will. This is a hobby, not a business, and money is never part of it. Snacks, however, are always accepted. Preferred denominations: chips, gummy candy of any nationality, and anything your grandmother makes. Payable in person only. Good movie...