Artificial Intelligence
I'm increasingly leveraging agentic AI tools—tools you can now interact with and act on your behalf directly inside your code editor. Let's talk about how to use, and not use, these incredible tools to be more productive and write code you would be proud to ship.
Artificial Intelligence
Deploy local AI Chat that is actually good, fast, and comparable to paid using metal you already own, no subscription required. We'll use Open WebUI as our ChatGPT like interface and Ollama as our local model runner. We'll integrate with premium online cloud models too!
Homelab
I'll walk you through quickly migrating your Pi-hole configuration, including ad lists, whitelists, and custom DNS, to AdGuard home. Improving performance along with enabling TLS encryption, DoH, DOT, and deployment to Kubernetes
Homelab
Harness the potential of Unifi network traffic rules for your home network by integrating them with Home Assistant. Let's dive in and unlock!
Homelab
I'm writing this homelab guide to share some of the things I've learned, so if you're starting out or looking for what to do next, perhaps you can grab an idea or two for your setup. I would always advise starting small, getting comfortable, and then deciding if you are ready for more.
Security
I hope to convince you that good personal online privacy and security is essential, accessible, and works on any budget.
DNS
Caution: prepare to enter the over-engineering zone! I assert that your homelab can have one local IP address for DNS that will be fast & resilient across a high volume of requests, survive several physical and virtual machine failures, while never failing to resolve or respond.
Artificial Intelligence
Wouldn't it be awesome to use a local LLM as your personal AI assistant on the daily, subscription-free, completely offline, and even in VS Code? Type "y" to continue.
Homelab
Previously, I wrote an article about how to set up two or more Pi-hole instances using Docker Swarm, which has worked quite well for me up to this point. I've since decided this setup was too easy and wanted to move from Normal to Hard mode and bring Kubernetes into the mix.
Remote Work
I'm a huge fan of reverse proxy tunnels. Accessing private networks, like your home network or homelab, in this way is generally considered more secure than using a VPN or exposing ports to the public internet on your router. This will get you up and running in 5 minutes; anyone can do it.
Gaming
I'm a little older, and my reaction time is a little slower, but I can claw some of that back with a bit of button mapping and retraining. Casual doesn't have to mean settling for the stock option.
Homelab
I'm continuing to discover new and exciting ways to access my Homelab and home network when I'm away or using a device I don't personally manage...in this case, securely, without a VPN or WARP client