This is my homelab.
What it's for, what it runs, and why you might want one of your own.
A homelab is a small stack of computers you run at home to host your own software: a place to learn enterprise tools without an enterprise budget, to keep your data on hardware you control, and to tinker. Mine has grown into a real little datacenter — a rack, a cluster, monitoring, backups, and a few experiments that have no business being as fun as they are.
The lab, right now
A live, sanitized reading — refreshed nightly.
$ open the full infra terminal ▸Start here
Hardware →
The rack: past, present, and where it's heading. What the iron actually is.
Software →
What runs on it, and why — the self-hosting-for-privacy thesis, service by service.
Posts →
Longer reads: donating idle compute with BOINC, a 1990s game as an AI testbed, local AI for privacy and cost.
Why bother?
- Privacy. Self-hosting means your files, photos, and notes live on disks you own.
- Control & cost. Running AI locally keeps prompts private and costs predictable.
- Learning. Every service is a chance to break something safely and understand it.
- It's fun. That's allowed to be the whole reason.