I set up a home server for the first time and these 5 apps changed everything
…In my case, my old gaming PC was begging for some sort of home, and instead of being relegated to storage, I decided to install Proxmox on it and give it a…
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I stopped asking Claude Code to build things, and that's when it got actually useful
…usually easier to define and easier to review. “Check whether these backups completed” is a much better request than “fix my Proxmox setup.” “Show me unhealthy Docker containers” is safer than “optimize…
My favorite AI coding tool isn't OpenCode: it's something way better (and cooler)
…I’ve also asked it to create dedicated extensions for Podman , Nextcloud, Home Assistant, and Proxmox. Apart from one attempt where I didn’t specify the Docker extension in the prompt (which…
I wanted a Synology home server until I realized it was designed to stop me from building one
…Synology technically supports this world through Container Manager and Virtual Machine Manager. You can create Docker projects, use Compose files, monitor containers, and run Linux or Windows virtual machines. But these features…
Home Assistant is way more than a smart home dashboard, and here's what I actually run on it
…For example, I’ve connected my Proxmox cluster nodes to Home Assistant using the unofficial PVE integration, and it lets me monitor, control, and automate my virtual guests and even the underlying…
I gave Home Assistant access to my NAS, and it became the dashboard my smart home was missing
…Or, if you’re anything like me, you can pair it with Proxmox and Docker integrations to create an all-in-one dashboard featuring entity cards of each platform. The TrueNAS integration…
This free self-hosted app turned my Jellyfin server into a YouTube archive overnight
…Then, I ran docker compose up -d to get Pinchflat up and running, before using the VM’s IP address and port 8945 to access the app’s web UI. After I…
Running Jellyfin on a NAS with Docker support turned my media chaos into something that actually works
…There was always just a little too much friction between wanting to watch something and actually getting there. Moving Jellyfin onto the NAS and taking advantage of its native Docker support pulled…
I stopped adding hardware to my home lab when I realized fewer moving parts meant more uptime
…Proxmox If you have multiple services, such as Pi-hole, Grafana, and Immich, running on separate devices, a smart move might be to migrate them all to a Proxmox node. See at…
I turned a Raspberry Pi and mini PC into a portable homelab that fits in my backpack
…Proxmox for virtualization , a few VMs, LXC containers, Immich for managing photos, Jellyfin for streaming media, a file server, and Docker containers like Caddy, Redis, Jenkins, and others. The NVMe enables all…