Homelab

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Day Zero Protocol: Standing Up a Proxmox Homelab Node From Blank USB Stick to Tailscale Mesh

The origin of the homelab node behind Ghost Protocol and Pocket Protocol: Proxmox on a mini PC, one-line installs, a BIOS power-cut gotcha, and the Tailscale mesh.

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Pocket Protocol: Driving Pi Coding Agents in Your Homelab From Your Phone

Drive Pi coding agents running in a homelab from your phone: a self-hosted Un Bien relay, pairing over a Tailscale mesh, answering agent prompts, and launching sessions remotely.

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Ghost Protocol: Running AI Coding Agents 24/7 on an Always-On Homelab Dev Machine

Why I moved AI coding agents off my laptop and onto an always-on homelab dev machine: unattended agent pipelines, a three-layer Docker devcontainer, and remote access from any device via Claude Code and agent-deck.

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Docker in LXC: am I doing it wrong?

Is running Docker inside LXC on Proxmox an antipattern? A year of production experience with 7 containers, the real tradeoffs, and an honest verdict.

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The Home Assistant Supremacy: Two Houses, Two Servers, One Command

How I built a Claude Code skill to control two Home Assistant instances from the terminal -- no browser switching, natural language in, correct hass-cli command out.

Operation Minilab: synchronizing two houses

How I built a self-hosted homelab across two houses using Intel N97 mini PCs, Proxmox, Tailscale, Home Assistant, Immich, and Frigate -- on a budget.