The NetBox dashboard on first launch, every object count sitting at zero

Trying NetBox in My Home Lab

I gave the lab VM more memory recently, which left room to try another service. NetBox was the one I wanted to test, because it does two jobs I currently do badly in scattered markdown: DCIM — sites, virtualization, and how infrastructure relates to itself. IPAM — prefixes, VLANs, address ranges, individual IP assignments. The trial was deliberately conservative. I wanted to find out whether NetBox suited the lab without handing it unnecessary exposure, and without letting an automated import invent facts I hadn’t verified. ...

14 August 2026 · 4 min
Obsidian with the Claudian sidebar open — Claude reformatting a SIEM runbook with tool calls visible

Claudian: A Claude Agent Inside My Obsidian Vault

My study notes live in Obsidian. My agent lives in a terminal. For a month those were two separate worlds: when I wanted Claude to clean up the vault, I drove Claude Code at it from outside — point the CLI at the folder, describe the job, check the result in Obsidian afterwards. Claudian collapses that into one window. It’s an open-source community plugin that embeds Claude Code inside Obsidian as a sidebar — the vault becomes the agent’s working directory, and the agent becomes part of the note-taking app. ...

18 July 2026 · 4 min