There's a certain satisfaction in automating something that was never designed to be automated. My SIBRILLE desk lamp is a perfectly nice lamp ā 22W, touch controls, remote, adjustable color temperature. But it has one frustrating quirk: every time power is cut and restored, it defaults to off. That…
It's been a while since my last homelab post ā long enough that a lot has changed. This is my attempt to catch everything up in one place. Grab a coffee. Table of Contents 1. The Dashboard Gets a Makeover 2. Deploying Nextcloud (and Saying Goodbye to Some Old…
Like any good homelabber, I sometimes get the urge to ājust try somethingā late at night. This time, that āsomethingā was AdGuard Home, a DNS-level ad blocker and filtering service. My plan was simple: spin up AdGuard in Docker, point pfSense at it, and bask in an ad-free, privacy-respecting LAN.…
Snowflake has quickly become one of the most popular cloud data platforms ā and for good reason. Its separation of storage and compute, pay-as-you-go scalability, and unique features like zero-copy cloning and time travel make it a powerful tool for modern data teams. But for many engineers, the challenge isnāt…
Given that I can seemingly never just leave well enough alone, I recently decided to pick up a used 8-core/16-thread Intel Core i9-9900K CPU off eBay to āupgradeā my NAS (which was running a humble 6-core i5-9500T). The idea was simple: 16 threads would let me dedicate 8 to…
After something of a homelab hiatus, Iām back at it in full force. Although Iāve had the hardware for a while, Iād been putting off migrating my Plex/Arr stack (and its ever-growing media library) from my Dell R730 Proxmox server to my DIY Unraid NAS. The…
While it's probably not the best thing to admit, I've been neglecting my homelab for some time now. Gotify had been giving me errors for a at least a month and eventually seemed to stop working entirely. So it wasn't a complete surprise when…
Weāve covered everything from architecture to performance and cost management in Azure Synapse. Now, letās close out the series with a practical guide to monitoring, troubleshooting, and applying best practices to keep your data warehouse running smoothly. Even the best-designed pipelines need visibility and tuningāthis is where…