LOG // TRANSMISSIONS
Field Notes
Build logs, technical deep dives, lessons learned, and opinions from the console.
MCP
→MCP Belongs in IT Operations
Why Model Context Protocol tooling fits tickets, assets, changes, and operational workflows.
HOMELAB
→The Homelab as a Staging Ground
How a home infrastructure lab helps test ideas before they become real operational patterns.
HOMELAB
→Why I Keep the Lab Rebuildable
The value of documentation, config exports, backup checks, and avoiding one-off systems.
HOMELAB
→Monitoring the Things Nobody Notices
Why homelab observability is less about dashboards and more about catching quiet failures.
HOMELAB
→From NAS to Platform
The point where the homelab stopped being storage with extras and became infrastructure.
HOMELAB
→The Case for Boring Networking
Why the best homelab network is usually the one that stops demanding attention.
HOMELAB
→Leaving Unifi
Why the homelab network started moving away from UniFi and toward TP-Link Omada.
HOMELAB
→Remote Access Before Tailscale
The port-forwarding and dynamic DNS era before private mesh access became the better answer.
HOMELAB
→When the Lab Needed DNS
Why local names became necessary once the homelab had more than a few services.
HOMELAB
→The First Docker Stack
How containers changed the homelab from a server with apps into a platform for experiments.
HOMELAB
→Parity Is Not Backup
The early Unraid lesson that drive protection and data recovery are not the same thing.
HOMELAB
→Migrating to Unraid
Why Unraid made more sense than FreeNAS for a growing home storage server.