Series
Home Lab
20 partsStanding up and running a real home lab on VMs — self-hosted services, monitoring, remote access, and the debugging each one dragged in.
- Debugging a Dead VMware NAT and Hardening My pfSense Containment Lab
- Implementing LaMetric TIME to Network
- Implementing LaMetric TIME to Network Part 2
- Building a Prometheus and Grafana Observability Stack for My Home Lab
- Syncing Claude Code Across Devices with a Custom MCP Hub over Tailscale
- Self-Hosted WireGuard Through a Nested Firewall — and the Four-Layer Debug to Make It Work
- A Backup You Haven't Restored Is a Hypothesis
- Metrics You Have to Remember to Look At Aren't Monitoring
- Building a Homelab SIEM with Loki — Reading My Logs Instead of Hoping
- Running OpenVAS in My Home Lab — Install, the Three Things That Broke, and the First Scan
- A Front Door for the Home Lab
- Building a Backup Watchdog in n8n — and Finding a Five-Day Outage While I Did It
- Two VPNs, One Phone: Consolidating Remote Access
- Implementing Langfuse to Monitor Claude Code
- One DNS Filter, Three Clients That All Bypass It Differently
- Patching a Homelab Has Two Halves — and Only One of Them Is apt
- Auditing the AI Agent That Runs My Homelab
- A Vulnerability Scan From Codex, a Container Upgrade From Claude Code
- Three Agents, One Approval Gate — Making Claude, Codex and Kimi Review Each Other
- The Council Gets a Front Door
Built With Claude
4 partsPrograms built end-to-end by directing Claude Code — from a one-sentence spec to a hardened, packaged tool.
Hardening Network
4 partsLocking the network down properly — segmentation, firewall rules and host hardening, every step proven rather than assumed.
AAA
3 partsAuthentication, authorization, and accounting across the homelab — a self-hosted vault, then one identity provider with MFA everywhere, from web dashboards to the firewall's own login.
Building the Blog
3 partsThe site itself as a project — a Hugo + Claude Code publishing pipeline, a move to Cloudflare Pages for real security headers, then a hardened domain of its own.
SPT Mods
2 partsReviving abandoned Single Player Tarkov mods — porting them onto modern APIs and hardening them for community release.
Apps With Claude Integration
1 partsClaude embedded inside the apps themselves rather than driven from a terminal next to them — starting with the note vault where everything else gets written down first.