Field notes on running things like production — at work, at home, and in the gap between them.
6 posts tagged homelab.
A complete build record for turning a surplus Solum retail label into a Home Assistant-backed Codex status display: EFR32 recovery, Pico 2 flashing, S3+C6 radio architecture, no-solder decisions, wiring failures and the path to a homelab enclosure.
Second in the Tools I Stole From Work series: putting work-grade observability under a home network, and trimming the free tier when it hit 100GB.
Moving a skill library and a file-based memory store between agent tools without copying either, by pointing both at one source of truth.
Consolidating MCP config from three agent tools into one self-hosted hub, and why I split it into themed namespaces instead of one catch-all.
Late one evening, I found myself standing on my own doorstep with a torch and a clipboard, inspecting the house as though I were an external auditor. The exercise started as a routine security review of my homelab and internet-facing services, but it quickly turned into a reminder that the most obvious risks are not always the ones you notice first.
Notes from running a homelab and a family with the same brain.