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Homelab
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Pimox: Proxmox Virtualization on Raspberry Pi 4B
A comprehensive gist for turning a Raspberry Pi 4B into a Proxmox virtualization host using Pimox — covers Home Assistant VM, USB passthrough, SSD boot, and Docker. Practical homelab reference for ARM-based virtualization.
Disk Prices on eBay
A price tracker for hard disk drives on eBay, sorted by cost-per-TB. Useful when building out storage-heavy homelab or NAS setups where getting the best $/TB matters.
SketchyBar: Highly Customizable macOS Status Bar Replacement
SketchyBar is a highly customizable macOS status bar replacement that lets you build a fully custom top bar with scripts, widgets, and plugins. The starting point for anyone who wants a custom macOS desktop setup.
Building a NAS with ZFS and AFP/Samba for Time Machine
A guide to building a NAS (Network Attached Storage) with ZFS and AFP/Samba configured as a Time Machine backup target — covering ZFS pool setup, share configuration, and macOS Time Machine integration. The self-hosted alternative to iCloud or Time Capsule for Mac backups.
Self-Hosting Guide
A comprehensive GitHub reference covering self-hosted alternatives to cloud services — NAS, media servers, home automation, password managers, and more. The definitive starting point for anyone building a home server setup.
Rancher K3s: Kubernetes on Proxmox Containers
A guide to running K3s (lightweight Kubernetes) inside Proxmox LXC containers — a popular homelab setup that gives you a real Kubernetes cluster on commodity hardware without the overhead of full VMs. Good reference for homelabbers who want production-grade container orchestration locally.
Dashy: Self-Hosted Personal Dashboard
Dashy is an open-source, self-hosted personal homepage and service dashboard — a customizable start page for your homelab or self-hosted services with widgets, status checks, and icon integration. Popular in the homelab and self-hosted communities.
Home Lab Beginners Guide: Hardware
A beginner's hardware guide to setting up a home lab — covers server options (used enterprise gear vs. mini PCs), networking basics (managed switches, VLANs), and storage. Entry point to the homelab community's approach to learning infrastructure hands-on.
Smart Home Components: A Systems Engineer's Setup
Michael Stapelberg's deep-dive into his home automation setup — a systems engineer's perspective on choosing components for a local-first, open smart home without cloud dependencies. Covers protocols, hubs, and the tradeoffs between ecosystems.
Server Setup 2022
TheOrangeOne's 2022 server setup overview — hardware, OS, containerization, monitoring, backup strategy. A well-documented example of a mature home server stack with emphasis on reliability and observability.
Screw It, I'll Host It Myself
A personal account of moving from cloud services to self-hosted alternatives — the motivations, the setup, and the tradeoffs. Captures the early-2022 wave of interest in digital self-sovereignty driven by concerns about SaaS pricing and data privacy.
Enabling SSL in Your Local Network
A practical approach to getting proper SSL certificates for local network services using Let's Encrypt wildcard certs and DNS validation — avoiding the browser warnings of self-signed certs without exposing services to the internet. Clean solution for anyone running internal homelab services.
Docker VM on Proxmox with RancherOS and Portainer
A walkthrough for running Docker on Proxmox using RancherOS as a minimal container-focused VM OS, with Portainer for container management UI. RancherOS is now unmaintained, but the pattern of a dedicated Docker VM inside Proxmox remains common.
smasher164/nas: Personal NAS Configuration
A personal NAS configuration repository (smasher164) — useful as a reference implementation for how someone configured their network-attached storage, likely using NixOS for reproducible system configuration. Bookmarked the same day as homelab, Headscale, and Netmaker notes.
KubeSail: Kubernetes Templates for Self-Hosting
KubeSail is a managed Kubernetes platform with a library of one-click deployment templates for self-hosted apps — deploy Nextcloud, Gitea, Bitwarden, and dozens more to your own cluster or KubeSail's hosting. Lowers the Kubernetes barrier for self-hosters.
Homelab: Fully Automated Self-Hosting Infrastructure
Khue's homelab is a fully automated self-hosting infrastructure project: from empty disk to running services with a single command, using Ansible for bare-metal provisioning, K3s for Kubernetes, and ArgoCD for GitOps deployment. A reference architecture for serious homelab automation.
Akasa A-NUC62-M1B: Fanless NUC Chassis
Akasa's A-NUC62-M1B is a fanless aluminum chassis for Intel NUC 12 Pro mini PCs — uses the case itself as a passive heatsink. The go-to option for building a completely silent, low-power home server or desktop without active cooling.
Installing macOS Big Sur on Proxmox
Nicholas Sherlock's guide for running macOS Big Sur as a virtual machine inside Proxmox VE — the canonical resource for macOS virtualization on open-source hypervisors. Makes it possible to run macOS without dedicated Apple hardware.