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Connecting Splunk to Claude — Token Auth, Self-Signed Certs, and the Desktop Gap
22 Mar 2026
How to wire up the Splunk MCP server to both Claude Code and Claude Desktop in a homelab using token-based auth and mcp-remote as a TLS proxy.
Build
Systems, tools, and hands-on making.
Build brings together the technical and physical work: AI tooling, homelab infrastructure, automation, home projects, and DIY experiments.
Writing
Notes from the workbench.
Technical notes, experiments, and decisions from the blog archive—the proof-of-work layer for build.
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Rebuilding the Homelab CI/CD Pipeline Around Domain Boundaries
10 Mar 2026
How I went from a tangle of disconnected GitLab child pipelines to a clean three-domain CI/CD architecture — and the gotchas along the way.
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The Ballad of Packet the Brave
4 Mar 2026
A heroic tale of a data packet's journey across a homelab network — its perils, its triumphs, and the unfinished business that stood between the realm and true peace.
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Building a Home Assistant Integration for Ryde Council Waste Collection
1 Mar 2026
How I built a custom HACS-compatible Home Assistant integration that tracks bin collection schedules using Ryde Council's public API.
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homeaiops: Building a Production-Grade Homelab Platform
1 Mar 2026
An overview of the homeaiops project — its goals, architecture, three-domain structure, and where things stand today.
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Improving the Claude New Post Skill with a Dev Branch Workflow
1 Mar 2026
How I updated my Claude Code skill for creating Hugo blog posts to commit to a dev branch first, validate the live URL, and confirm before merging to main.
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Get that nice Git branch displayed in your terminal
28 Aug 2025
Add the following to get the active Git branch displayed in your terminal.
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Setting good password complexity controls
14 May 2025
Making strong Ubuntu password policies
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Spread your AI Model load over multiple GPU's
8 Apr 2025
Enabling Ollama to use the GPU and VRAM power of multiple GPU's
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Handy Docker alias command example
4 Apr 2025
Shortcut your typing and speed up your deployments.
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Coral USB "Key is stored in legacy trusted.gpg keyring"
4 Apr 2025
Fix your trusted keyring for the Coral USB device
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Creating a loadbalancer in Traefik
31 Mar 2025
Loadbalancing across three servers with a weight and sticky sessions
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NVIDIA drivers don't load after a reboot (LXC)
31 Mar 2025
Enabling Nvidia persistence mode keeps the NVIDIA character device files open.
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GPU's and NFS on Proxmox
31 Mar 2025
My summary of the options for using NFS and a GPU on Proxmox
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NVIDIA GPU access inside a Proxmox LXC
31 Mar 2025
Getting your NVIDIA GPU working in Proxmox and shared within an LXC.
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HOMEPAGE_ALLOWED_HOSTS env parameter
17 Mar 2025
What to do if you get a "denied access" to your homepage.dev
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JetKVM is the smallest screen you'll ever use.
10 Mar 2025
A quick look at JetKVM, a nifty device to monitor your remote servers KVM.
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Hugo Dockerfile
10 Mar 2025
A Dockerfile to create a container image for the Hugo web framework
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Nested Environment Variables with Docker Compose Files
9 Mar 2025
Provides a way to set nested environment variables at a global and local scope. It will expose variables to both the container and the docker-compose file.
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A Journey with Hugo
9 Mar 2025
The first steps to crafting a new static website using the Hugo Framework.
Still building: Some areas (health logs, DIY workshop notes, and parts of /uses) are intentionally light while proof-of-work posts and active builds carry the site.