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AI Swarm Audited My 840-Post Blog
I pointed a parallel swarm of AI agents at 840 technical posts to fact-check and refresh them, the architecture, the token bill, and the guardrails.
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Mini PCs With 2.5GbE: Picking the Right Box
A 2026 home lab guide to mini PCs with built-in 2.5GbE: NIC chipsets, idle power consumption, thermals, and which small form-factor box fits your use case.
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Minisforum vs Beelink vs Trigkey Homelab
Three mini PC brands dominate homelab 2026: Minisforum, Beelink, Trigkey. Here's how to pick the right Ryzen or N100 box for your cluster.
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OPA & Gatekeeper: Policy as Code
Open Policy Agent and Gatekeeper enforce rules across Kubernetes, block privileged pods, require labels, restrict images. Rego basics and real homelab constraints.
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SigNoz vs Uptrace Self-Hosted Observability
Two OpenTelemetry-first observability platforms backed by ClickHouse. Here's how SigNoz and Uptrace compare for self-hosted homelab and small-team use.
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Used GPU Buying Guide for Home Lab LLMs
Your no-BS guide to buying a used GPU for local LLM inference in 2026. Budget tiers from $200 to $1500 plus, real VRAM math, and tips to dodge the scams.
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Longhorn vs Rook-Ceph
Two ways to give your K8s cluster persistent block storage, Longhorn for simplicity, Rook-Ceph for scale. Real homelab tradeoffs, not vendor marketing slides.
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Gateway API vs Ingress in 2026
Ingress is the annotation-soup classic. Gateway API is the role-oriented future with proper L4/L7 separation. Here's when to migrate and when to wait.
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Rock 5B vs Orange Pi 5 vs Pi 5
Rock 5B, Orange Pi 5, and Raspberry Pi 5 compared for home lab use, NVMe, 2.5GbE, NPU, Frigate, k3s performance, and which one you should actually buy.
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Velero: K8s Backup and DR
Your cluster will fail. Velero captures everything, manifests, CRDs, persistent volumes, and lets you replay it on a fresh cluster. Setup, gotchas, real DR plans.
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BIOS/UEFI Tweaks for Headless Servers
Before you rack that server and walk away forever, these BIOS and UEFI settings will save you from a 3 AM drive to the datacenter or your dusty basement.
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Claude Code in a Homelab Workflow
Claude Code puts an agentic AI assistant in your terminal for real homelab work, compose files, bash, Ansible, systemd. The honest take on cost and data.
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