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I wanted one place to track what I own, what it cost, and where the warranty paperwork lives. Homebox fit, and a SQLite-backed deploy meant no extra database to babysit. Here is the Docker-in-LXC setup and the admin-account trick that is easy to miss.
A practical troubleshooting story about a client that could reach every VLAN except the one it was on, the tests we ran, and what finally made it go away.
Cursor kept padding the end of my files with blank lines. I reached for EditorConfig, learned it does not actually solve that problem, and found the pre-commit hook that does.
My coding agents kept reaching straight for the Plane REST API. I wrote a rule to make MCP the default instead. Here is why, and the handful of cases where direct HTTP is still the right call.
RomM was taking 60-80 seconds per ROM during its first scan on my homelab. Here is what I found, what I changed, and why the real answer turned out to be a much bigger library than I thought.
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