There are two kinds of homelab builders: the ones who label everything and the ones who will spend forty-five minutes at 11pm tracing a mystery ethernet run with a flashlight. Both approaches have something real to say about how people actually think about permanence.

Self-hosting a blog on your own hardware sounds like the power move. And it is. But nobody tells you what you’re signing up for when the glamour wears off.

Every shortcut I took setting up my homelab made sense at the time. Six months later, I was untangling decisions I barely remembered making — and that’s the real cost nobody talks about.

Local AI isn’t just coming to your home lab — it’s already here, and it’s changing everything from how we manage our infrastructure to creating music in ways that would make our granddaddies scratch their heads in wonder.

After a decade of “cloud-first” everything, the pendulum is swinging back as companies rediscover the hidden costs of public cloud dependency.

My basement looks like a server farm had a baby with a Radio Shack from 1995, and honestly, I wouldn’t have it any way else.