A lot of my homelab traffic goes through the HAProxy reverse proxy — making it a single point of failure. This can be fixed by having two HAProxy servers and a floating IP.

I recently signed up with ProtonMail — I wanted something secure, able to handle PGP encryption and with a nice webmail interface and Android app. After giving the free account a quick look, I upgraded to a paid account and moved two custom domains over. Everything was going great. Time to import my decade of emails into my ProtonMail account…

My kids wanted traffic lights for their LEGO city, so first I had to build a traffic lights controller.

My twins and I both like LEGO, and LEDs. I figured I’d make some simple LED street lights that we could use to build a LEGO scenery.

After reading blog posts from BunnyCDN and Ctrl blog on the varying performance on top-level domains — I got curious on how .no would perform.

My file server, Zeta, has an mdadm RAID6 array with eight 4 TB disks. I want to expand, but before doing so I’m going to migrate to ZFS.

I’m using Prometheus to monitor my home office and homelab, I figured it would be cool to have a stack light show the active warnings and alerts from Alertmanager. So I made a HAT (Hardware Attached on Top) for the Raspberry Pi to drive a five-colored stack light.

I used the have the ultrawide monitor on a shelf in front of me, but I wanted it a bit closer and to be able to use the space below the monitor. So instead I used some scrap wood, a cheap VESA mount I had, and the brackets for the shelf to make it “float”.

I was quite happy with the previous Inter-Tech case I got, so I decided to get another. This time I got a rack mountable storage case, with 16 hot swap bays, for my file server Zeta. More thoughts and photos!

I’ve used this case a lot over the years — I first got one back in 2011, for my first rack mountable server. At the most, I had four of these in my homelab rack. They were relatively cheap, and easy to get.

Over the years I’ve sold most of them off, replacing them with Inter-Tech 4U-4129-N and 4U-4416. And my desktop computer have moved out of the server rack and into a regular desktop case.