Home Lab

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Building and experimenting in a personal tech playground. Exploring hardware setups, network configurations, virtualisation technologies, and homelab project ideas. Satisfying hands-on breaking and creating of personal services and infrastructure cos-playing.

• I do declare nix-darwin

  Mar 14, 2026

  9 min read

  Home Lab Automation

  Howto Mac Opensource

  A primer on Nix and Nix-Darwin and the how and why I have implemented it as a replacement to Homebrew and MacPorts on my laptop for easier and reproducable application and state management in a MacOS environment.

• Solving Intel NIC Shenanigans

  Oct 20, 2025

  4 min read

  Home Lab Neworking

  Linux Hardware Howto

  How I fixed the issue with non-intel trasceiver not working with Intel X520 network card. Intel trying to be smart and how to tell the card to get over itself.

• Big move...Hang in there

  Dec 19, 2022

  1 min read

  Home Lab

  Blog Opensource

  The Wordpress.com gouging is over. Since moving to a new house with business class internet and a new server rack with a High availability server/storage solution. Its a process…

• FreeIPA Centos 8 lxc Replica Server

  Aug 15, 2022

  5 min read

  Home Lab Virtualisation

  Linux Lxc Redhat Server FreeIPA

  FreeIPA is to linux as Active Directory is to Windows. Like AD for Windows, FreeIPA should have a replica for high availability. This is a walk though on how I got it setup and running in CentOS 8 LXC container on Proxmox VE server. Low resource demands compared to a dedicated vurtual machine.

• FreeIPA in CentOS 8 LXC container

  Apr 1, 2021

  11 min read

  Home Lab Virtualisation

  Linux Lxc Redhat FreeIPA Server

  FreeIPA is to linux as Active Directory is to Windows. This is a walk though on how I got it setup and running in CentOS 8 LXC container on Proxmox VE server. Low resource demands compared to a dedicated vurtual machine.

• No NFS on boot

  Sep 29, 2020

  2 min read

  Home Lab Neworking

  Ubuntu Linux Networking

  Upgrade my workstation and now NFS mounts in fstab not mounting on boot but working with mount -a command works as expected. in short, systemd is worth learning and I cant believe ubuntu was released with such a basic bug.

• iCloud contacts on Linux. 2 years on

  Sep 12, 2019

  2 min read

  Home Lab

  Mac Linux Opensource

  Two years ago I began migrating looking at ways to use the Appleverse without Apple and extending collaborative features to Linux and open source. The solutions where technical and so “kludgy”. Time and need of the masses has now made this now near native and easy to implement.

• Created a GitHub Repo

  Jan 17, 2019

  1 min read

  Automation Home Lab IoT

  Git Homeassitant Maker

  Lately I’ve been focusing on home automation using Home Assistant and I’ve created a GitHub repository for my configuration to help version control and roll backs. I’m sure I will find more uses

• Toe dip into Home Automation

  Jan 5, 2019

  3 min read

  Automation Home Lab IoT

  Homeassitant Hardware Maker

  I see the need for home automation. Well…I would like to explore this technology and make it work for me. There are so many options and there are some very expensive options, not just cost but in privacy and closed ecosystem risks.

• Beatport Pro working on MacOS Mojave

  Oct 24, 2018

  1 min read

  Home Lab

  Mac Solution

  Upgrading MacOS from High Sierra to Mojave introduces some new security requirements that cause issues with some applications. The fix for apps created in electron is simple onse you know how.

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