Infrastructure
Researching MikroTik RouterOS DNS proxy for the homelab
What RouterOS DNS proxy does, how it would touch DHCP, firewall rules, and static DNS, and why I left clients talking to Pi-hole directly.
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Development
Watching Claude work: VS Code in a cmux browser pane
Why I stopped juggling terminals for AI edits, how I run VS Code for the web beside Claude Code in cmux, and the config that ties it together.
Infrastructure
Fixing Proxmox replication when ZFS has no common base snapshot
A Pi-hole replica CT stopped replicating with "No common base snapshot on volume(s)." Here is how I traced it, cleared the broken snapshot chain, and rebuilt the replication job.
Infrastructure
BirdNET-Go, a doorbell cam, and a dynamic mic from the drawer
Deploying a self-hosted bird-sound ID service on the homelab for $0: the BirdNET-Pi to BirdNET-Go switch, USB audio passthrough into Docker-in-LXC, pulling doorbell audio through Frigate go2rtc, and the Ansible YAML bug that silently stopped clips from saving.
Infrastructure
Network monitoring evolution: Home Assistant metrics, alert tuning, and LAN latency
After moving WAN speed tests off a dedicated exporter, I normalized metrics for Grafana, cut alert noise, and fixed a blind spot: iperf3 throughput without latency, plus tuning alerts around scrape targets that are often flaky in practice.
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