About
Howdy! I am a home LAN and self-hosting hobbyist / enthusiast. Translation: I am a control freak - nothing drives me more nuts than public cloud-hosted SaaS.
Apparently, sometimes I like to write, too.
Ultimately, I’m learning, and this is my place to record my learning. If you happen to stumble across this site, and if you can parse any of my hopeless ramblings, I hope that you get something out of it. I make no claims as to the veracity of the content. It is not my goal to write full tutorials: I try to document just enough so that I can refer back to my thought process at the time, as well as enough detail to re-implement a process should I need to. YMMV.
Occasionally I will post less technical, more prose-y content. Please don’t read those, I’d be concerned for your sanity.
Finally, I am obligated to inform you that my | dream is to have vimkeys in every program. (But if you’ve read a few of my posts, you’ve probably inferred that much.)
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Blog posts organized vaguely by project
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Subnetting my home LAN (with only one LAN port on my router)
- Home LAN management network isolation with Tailscale
- Spaced repetition - adding a new VLAN to existing RoaS config
- Setting up an isolated guest network on home LAN
- Installing my new Cisco CBS350-16T-2G switch and configuring VLANs with OPNsense
- OPNsense router-on-a-stick proof-of-concept with Cisco switch
- Configuring router-on-a-stick on Cisco router and switch in Packet Tracer
- Musings on setting up router-on-a-stick on OPNsense router and Cisco switch
- Migrating home router to Protectli Vault v1211 running OPNsense
TrueNAS media server
- qBittorrent web UI container behind a VPN
- Actually moving iSCSI share to physically separated storage network
- Moving iSCSI share to dedicated storage network
- Using thin provisioning for iSCSI share
- Playing music with MPD and PulseAudio across LAN
- Setting up NFS share on TrueNAS
- Network shares with iSCSI
Trying to cope with being an adult
- Retrospective and lessons learned after a few months using Todoist for The Cycle
- Books I read in 2024
- In search of the ideal task management solution - part II
- In search of the ideal task management solution - part I
Making my Thinkpads backdoor-less
Personal VPN
- Follow up on WireGuard bounce server
- Actually setting up WireGuard VPN bounce server
- Musings on setting up VPS with WireGuard
Pi-hole DNS and home LAN HTTPS
- Enabling or disabling DNSSEC on OpenWRT router
- Getting a publicly signed SSL certificate for use on private LAN
- First pass at LAN DNS and subdomains with HTTPS
- Pi-hole with OpenWRT
- Initial setup of my Raspberry Pi 5
This blog
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