Cooler in QA
2026-07-01
I received an email from PCBWay to QA.
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Just chillin
2026-06-15
Designing the electronics for my server rack cooling solution
PI Integrated Lights-Out
2026-06-10
Safe power management with a raspberry pi
Raspberry PI UPS with Automatic Shutdown
2026-06-08
How to implement uninterruptible power supply with automatic shutdown detection.
It's Coolio
2026-06-06
Designing a custom cooling solution for my server rack.
How I Remotely Hard-Reset My Raspberry Pis
2026-06-01
When a Raspberry Pi locks up hard, the only fix is cutting the power. Here's how I use cloud-free Shelly smart plugs and their local API to remotely power-cycle my Pis — and track each one's power draw in Grafana.
Network Cabling: A Beautify Chore
2026-05-29
Isn't RJ45 so zen! Em... not really!
Tagging my home lab
2026-05-24
My favourite use to be my IDE now its my label maker!
Making my homelab Kubernetes rack-aware
2026-05-18
So I can take a whole rackmount offline for maintenance, any afternoon, without downtime.
Fancy A Cup of Gitea anyone?
2026-04-11
Hosting your own GitHub might be the way to go!
Moving my video transcoding to Apple Silicon
2026-03-31
A rack of Rock Pi 5s couldn't keep up, so I moved transcoding to Apple Silicon — and built Barn to run the jobs.
My First Cluster
2025-02-17
My adventures with a home streaming server and Kubernetes