Tutorials
How to Block AI Scrapers: robots.txt, Rate Limits, and Access Control
State crawler preferences with robots.txt, enforce request policies with bot controls and rate limits, and authenticate private content. Test exceptions for legitimate traffic and retain logs without assuming every unwanted scraper is blocked.
Build a Homelab Service Catalog Before You Forget Everything
A practical homelab service catalog guide for tracking what runs where, who uses it, how it is backed up, and how to recover it.
Homelab SSO: Authentik vs Authelia vs Pocket ID
A practical homelab SSO comparison covering Authentik, Authelia, Pocket ID, OIDC, SAML, proxy auth, passkeys, MFA, and recovery planning.
Is My Router Affected by This CVE? Model, Firmware, and Exposure Checks
Match the exact router model, hardware revision, firmware build, affected feature, and management exposure before acting on a CVE headline. Then route known exploitation or compromise to the appropriate patch, rebuild, rotation, or replacement runbook.
Linux Failure Injection Lab: Test systemd, Disk, DNS, and Recovery
Run bounded Linux failure-injection tests for systemd crashes, full and read-only filesystems, DNS and network loss, watchdogs, external alerts, rollback, and user-facing recovery without using production as the target.
Container Security for Normal Homelabs
A normal-person Docker security guide for exposed ports, privileged containers, Docker socket risk, secrets, rootless mode, user namespaces, and backups.
Self-Hosted App Lifecycle: Updates, Rollbacks, and Release Notes
A self-hosted operations guide for updating containers safely, reading release notes, backing up state, automating carefully, and rolling back.
How to Monitor Home Fiber: ONT Signals, Optical Power, and Failover
Monitor FTTH from the customer side using approved ONT status, Ethernet and router counters, latency and loss baselines, full-path UPS coverage, and controlled failover tests, then turn the results into useful ISP evidence.
Immich V3 Migration Runbook
Prepare an Immich migration with consistent database and asset backups, supported vector storage and compatible clients. Test a restored copy before relying on container health, search availability or image-version changes.
Proxmox Networking Without Tears
A practical Proxmox networking guide for bridges, VLAN-aware ports, management IPs, bonds, NAT, SDN, and safe change validation.