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K3s vs K0s vs MicroK8s: Lightweight Kubernetes for Home Labs
K3s, K0s, and MicroK8s all slim down Kubernetes for home labs and edge — but they make very different tradeoffs. Here's how to pick the right one without losing a weekend.
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Blog Comments: Self-Host or SaaS?
Disqus is a tracker farm wearing a comment box costume. Here's every real alternative — self-hosted and SaaS — and which one actually fits your blog.
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CrowdSec Collections & Bouncers: fail2ban for 2026
CrowdSec is fail2ban with community threat intel: scenario collections plus pluggable bouncers for Caddy or Traefik. Block millions of bad IPs from day one.
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mergerfs + SnapRAID: The Poor Man's Unraid
Skip the paid Unraid license. mergerfs + SnapRAID give you flexible JBOD pooling with parity protection on mismatched drives you already own, for free.
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Headscale: Self-Host Your Own Tailscale Control Plane
Headscale gives you all the magic of Tailscale's zero-config WireGuard mesh — without trusting a SaaS control plane. Deploy it end-to-end with Docker Compose, ACLs, MagicDNS, and exit nodes.
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Object Storage on a Pi: SeaweedFS Cluster Walkthrough
Run a real S3-compatible object storage cluster on Raspberry Pi 4s with SeaweedFS — low RAM overhead, fast filer, no Ceph drama or surprise cloud bills.
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eBPF for the Curious: Kernel Tracing Without the PhD
eBPF traces what Linux is actually doing — syscalls, TCP events, slow functions — without rebooting. A hands-on intro to bpftrace, BCC, and libbpf with copy-paste one-liners.
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Bind Mounts vs NFS for Container Storage
Bind mounts are fast and simple; NFS is shared and flexible for containers. Pick wrong and your database corrupts at 2 AM. Here is how to choose wisely.
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NixOS First Impressions for Pragmatists
An honest take on migrating a home lab box to NixOS with flakes: the steep learning cliff, the weird Nix language, and why atomic rollbacks win.
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tmux vs Zellij vs Screen: Pick Your Multiplexer
Screen is on every server, tmux is the sysadmin workhorse, and Zellij is the modern newcomer with sane defaults. Here's how all three compare — and which one you should actually use.
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The Modern Unix Toolkit: fzf, ripgrep, fd, bat, eza
GNU coreutils are 50 years old and it shows. ripgrep, fd, bat, eza, fzf, and zoxide replace grep/find/cat/ls with faster, friendlier Rust-powered tools. Here's what each one wins at — and when the original still holds.
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Frigate + Coral TPU: AI Cameras Without the Subscription
Frigate NVR + a $60 Google Coral TPU gives you real-time AI object detection on your own cameras, integrates with Home Assistant, and costs nothing per month. Here's how to set it up.
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