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I Built a Dashboard for the Things I Actually Check
Five separate logins became one page. The interesting part was how often I turned out to be wrong.
I check five things regularly: whether the homelab is healthy, my portfolio, my health trend, whatever trip is coming up, and my to-do list. Each one lived somewhere different. Each had its own login. None of them talked to each other. I have to go looking for information by opening a browser, going to my bookmarks page and finding the right tile to click:
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Two Brains for My AI: How Obsidian and Trilium Split the Work
I've spent the last few months tinkering with a local AI stack on my desktop — Ollama for local inference, Hermes orchestrating the whole thing, and a Claude subscription for the heavy lifting. It works. But there was always one nagging gap I kept dancing around: where does the AI's memory actually live? For a…
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Home Network Topology 2026: The Full Map
Between the 2024 network upgrade post and the Homelab 1.0 post, I’ve talked a lot about individual components — the 10G switches, the Proxmox cluster, the NAS stack. But I’ve never actually drawn the full picture of how everything connects. Partly because it was always evolving, and partly because I suspect I was slightly embarrassed about how complicated it had gotten.
Well, here it is.