The actual problem I have a landing page (I am helping my wife generate leads for her business). It has a Google Ads campaign driving traffic to it. It also has PostHog tracking what visitors do once they arrive. Two systems, two dashboards, two browser tabs I keep open and…
I sat down tonight to build an HA Kubernetes cluster. I had two BeeLink mini PCs collecting dust, freshly installed with Ubuntu 24.04, both connected to my network over WiFi. Simple plan: switch them to wired, assign static IPs, and start building. TLDR: I did not build an HA…
Why I wanted comments I write blog posts about my homelab projects. People read them, some of them find them useful, and I know this because occasionally someone messages me on Linkedin. But there's no way for readers to leave feedback right there on the post. No "…
Background When I first set up Frigate NVR on my M1 Mac Mini, the AI detection worked, but it was running entirely on the CPU. Three Amcrest PoE cameras, each pushing a detect stream, with every frame getting processed through a CPU-based ONNX detector at ~29ms per inference. The M1…
I self host my blog. The whole thing, Ghost CMS, MySQL database, all of it, runs on a Docker host in my house. A Cloudflare tunnel punches it out to the internet so you can read posts at emir.fyi without my home IP being exposed. It sits alongside a…
Why did I do this I got tired of changing Blink camera batteries and of the thought that someone in the cloud might have recordings of my family's every move. That's it. That's the origin story. Every now and then I'd get…
Why I Did This My Proxmox host rebooted, and everything went dark. Vaultwarden, ArgoCD, my monitoring dashboard, the blog, Paperless. All of it. Every service in my homelab routed through a Kubernetes cluster running on Proxmox VMs, and the load balancer for that cluster was MetalLB, which also ran inside…