homelab
Jul 13, 2026
A LAN arcade you cycle by dropping folders
Building a self-hosted, offline arcade of static browser games — where adding a game is a folder and a card, and every game had to be de-CDN'd, subpath-proofed, or dropped.
self-hostingcaddylxc
Jun 15, 2026 Three attempts to separate the planes: VLANs in a two-node Proxmox homelab
Separating hypervisor management, out-of-band access, and guest traffic onto dedicated VLANs — what went wrong twice, and what the architecture looks like now.
networkingproxmoxvlan
Jun 10, 2026 Deploying the manager before the fleet: Proxmox Datacenter Manager, ahead of the hardware
Proxmox Datacenter Manager is most useful once you have several clusters — so I deployed it before the cluster that justifies it. Here's the build, the gotchas, and why a read-only token went to an AI agent.
proxmoxhomelabinfrastructure
Jun 2, 2026 A cluster inside your cluster: how I test scary upgrades
Running small throwaway test clusters inside the main one, so the bleeding-edge software gets to break something disposable first.
proxmoxtestinghomelab