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Notes on homelab, automation, AI agents and security — what I build and what I learn.
- Jul 5, 2026
Set-and-forget Proxmox maintenance: automatic updates and backups
The chores nobody does by hand after month two: host updates, container updates and backups, all automated on my Proxmox box with unattended-upgrades, one shell script, a systemd timer and vzdump. Full configs included.
- Jul 4, 2026
n8n + Home Assistant: a household agent for groceries, dinner plans and heat warnings
Two real systems from my house: a Telegram agent that manages our shopping list, dinner planning and projects, and a heat advisory workflow that predicts how hot the upstairs will get and learns from its own mistakes. Architecture, gotchas, and how to build your own.
- Jun 29, 2026
Giving Claude Code a long-term memory with MemPalace
AI agents forget everything between sessions. I fixed that with MemPalace: a local, offline memory system that seeded itself from months of my old Claude conversations. Why I picked it over Mem0 and friends, and how to set it up.
- Jun 14, 2026
How I actually work with AI: Claude Code, MCP servers and Agent of Empires
My day-to-day AI setup: Claude Code as the workhorse, MCP servers to give it hands, and Agent of Empires to manage multiple agent sessions from a terminal or my phone.
- Jun 13, 2026
Spring cleaning with an AI agent: mapping my network and auditing Home Assistant
I pointed an AI agent at my homelab and asked two things: draw me the real network topology, and tell me what's broken in Home Assistant. Here's the process, and why an audit beats new features.
- Mar 22, 2026
Reaching my homelab from anywhere: Tailscale, Nginx Proxy Manager and Cloudflare DNS
How I get real HTTPS domains for services that are only reachable over my private Tailscale network. No open ports, no public exposure, valid certificates everywhere, and the one Cloudflare setting that cost me an evening.
- Mar 18, 2026
My Proxmox homelab: one Intel NUC, a pile of LXC containers
Everything I self-host runs on a single Intel NUC with Proxmox VE. Here's how the machine is laid out, why almost everything is an LXC container instead of a VM, and how you can set up something similar.