SumGuy's Ramblings
The art of wasting time.
Docker, self-hosting, AI/LLM, Linux, and DevOps — explained by someone who learned the hard way. No fluff, no enterprise jargon, just practical stuff that actually works on real hardware.
Recent Posts
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NetAlertX MCP: One Token, Twelve Tools
NetAlertX v26.9.0 ships a built-in MCP server with 12 tools. Learn how to wire it into Claude Code, what it exposes, and when to use Home Assistant instead.
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Skeleton Key MCP vs One Token Per Box
Skeleton Key MCP swaps four narrow homelab tokens for one Vaultwarden vault and one OAuth consent flow. Here is what that buys you, and what it risks.
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Jev Retagged 840 Posts For 26 Cents
I ran TypeSafe's Jev model against 840 blog posts to fix tag drift. Real cost numbers, benchmarked accuracy, and the failure mode that almost cost pageviews.
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Proxmox MCP: Read-Only Beats Root
Two Proxmox MCP servers can query your cluster over chat, but the real safety boundary is a scoped PVEAuditor API token, not a config permission flag.
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Home Assistant MCP: Server and Client
Home Assistant ships two MCP integrations, not one. One turns your house into a server for Claude and ChatGPT. The other is narrower than its name suggests.
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Komodo MCP vs the Docker Socket
Komodo's community MCP server beats mounting the Docker socket or handing an AI agent SSH: scoped auth, per-tool RBAC, and confirmation before deletes.
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Nano Banana Is Eating Its Own Images
Nano Banana's blurry images come from two causes: permanent generational loss from iterative editing, and a June 2026 outage Google fixed within 15 hours.
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IPv6 Dual-Stack: The Hard Parts
Dual-stack IPv6 for home labs: DHCPv6-PD delegation, stable addressing past SLAAC privacy extensions, real nftables firewall rules, and Docker IPv6 done right.
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RomM and EmulatorJS: Retro on a NAS
RomM vs EmulatorJS explained: RomM is a ROM library manager that embeds EmulatorJS for browser play. Docker setup, metadata scraping, and save states compared.
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Ghostty vs Kitty vs WezTerm in 2026
Ghostty hit 1.0 and everyone wants to know if it beats Kitty and WezTerm. A fact-checked 2026 look at rendering, config, SSH terminfo, and multiplexing.
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Tinyauth vs Pocket ID vs Authelia
Tinyauth vs Pocket ID vs Authelia compared for home labs: setup cost, forward-auth support, real OIDC, passkeys, 2FA, and when to move up to Authentik.
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Pterodactyl vs Pelican vs Crafty
Pterodactyl, Pelican, and Crafty Controller compared on container isolation, install steps, and RAM footprint, with verified versions and a real pick.
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