Homelab
Ubiquiti Site Magic Routing: A No-Nonsense Beginner Guide to Routes, Route Injection, and Software-Defined Wide Area Network Fabric Design

A practical Site Magic routing guide covering UniFi site-to-site VPNs, route injection, subnet overlap, firewall policy, and branch troubleshooting.

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AI
Building a Network Digital Twin Workflow

A network digital twin is useful when it models topology, intent, policy, dependencies, and change impact. Here is a practical workflow for using it safely.

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Homelab
Reverse Proxy for Media Apps: Nginx Proxy Manager, SSL, Access Lists, and Security

A safer way to publish media-app hostnames with Nginx Proxy Manager, SSL, access lists, private defaults, logging, patching, and recovery boundaries.

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Homelab
Homelab DNS Guide: Local Names, Ad Blocking, and Reliability

A practical homelab DNS design for local names, ad blocking, split DNS, redundant resolvers, VPN clients, and safe internal naming.

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Cisco
Campus Segmentation Design: From VLANs to Unified Fabric

Campus segmentation should evolve from VLAN sprawl toward a hierarchy of VRFs, virtual networks, SGTs, and group-based policy that operations teams can actually manage.

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Homelab
Plex + Tdarr GPU Strategy: Sharing NVIDIA GPUs Without Hurting Playback

Assess Plex and Tdarr GPU contention with a playback baseline, one-worker tests, and peak-hour limits; pause batch work when playback regresses and retain originals for recovery.

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Cisco
Designing an AI-Ready Campus Network After Cisco Live 2026

An AI-ready campus network needs segmentation, telemetry, resilient wired and wireless design, cloud access, identity integration, and a change workflow that can support agentic operations.

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Homelab
Radarr Import Lists That Do Not Fill Your Library With Junk

Control Radarr import lists with source tags, staged search behavior, root folders, quality profiles, and manual review before automation creates noise.

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Homelab
Homelab Reverse Proxy Guide: HTTPS Without Unsafe Exposure

A security-first reverse proxy guide for homelabs, covering DNS, TLS, app exposure, internal-only services, authentication, logging, and validation.

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Cisco
Wi-Fi 7 in the Enterprise: Where Cisco’s Outdoor APs Fit

Wi-Fi 7 is not just a speed upgrade. Outdoor and large-venue Wi-Fi 7 designs need channel planning, PoE, uplink capacity, RF validation, client readiness, and operational telemetry.

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