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I write up homelab failures in detail — the ones where the obvious diagnosis was wrong. Everything here was measured on a running machine, never copied from the docs. GItHUB: https://github.com/casare

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My homelab agent can only recommend what the dataset can prove

Sanity Challenge Path One Submission
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My homelab agent can only recommend what the dataset can prove

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Ollama keep_alive -1 hangs every other model: a silent deadlock on a 6 GB GPU
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Ollama keep_alive -1 hangs every other model: a silent deadlock on a 6 GB GPU

#llm #debugging #ollama #selfhosted
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Cryptonym Desk on Sanity: moving a word list into a dataset found two bugs

Sanity Challenge Path Two Submission
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Cryptonym Desk on Sanity: moving a word list into a dataset found two bugs

#devchallenge #sanitychallenge #sanity #ai
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Piper TTS over Wyoming: the frame format and empty model that broke my podcast
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Piper TTS over Wyoming: the frame format and empty model that broke my podcast

#python #ai #opensource #selfhosted
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Authelia passkeys with TOTP as break-glass: why the config diff was empty
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Authelia passkeys with TOTP as break-glass: why the config diff was empty

#security #selfhosted #authentication #authelia
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eBay sold prices without the paid API: I built my own sold-comps engine and measured it
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eBay sold prices without the paid API: I built my own sold-comps engine and measured it

#api #python #opensource #selfhosted
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Naming AI agents: what the CIA's declassified cryptonym convention taught me
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Naming AI agents: what the CIA's declassified cryptonym convention taught me

#showdev #javascript #ai #webdev
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Spotify + djay on an iPad as a hands-off party DJ: my child's baptism, and an agent that ignored the brief
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Spotify + djay on an iPad as a hands-off party DJ: my child's baptism, and an agent that ignored the brief

#homelab #ai #spotify #djay
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AI blog writing pipeline without made-up facts: how I post daily from real work
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AI blog writing pipeline without made-up facts: how I post daily from real work

#ai #automation #writing #opensource
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ZimaBlade as a real home server (not a NAS appliance): Docker, disks and what to change
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ZimaBlade as a real home server (not a NAS appliance): Docker, disks and what to change

#docker #hardware #infrastructure #linux
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Free LLM API endpoints: a radar that finds them and a five-part gate before adopting one
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Free LLM API endpoints: a radar that finds them and a five-part gate before adopting one

#ai #llm #automation #opensource
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Random song picker for Spotify: a physical-feeling 'jukebox dice' for 6,500 tracks
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Random song picker for Spotify: a physical-feeling 'jukebox dice' for 6,500 tracks

#showdev #python #api #opensource
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CeX UK prices from Python: it offered £136 for a £30 Pi case (wrong product)
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CeX UK prices from Python: it offered £136 for a £30 Pi case (wrong product)

#showdev #python #api #opensource
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Spotify playlist CLI in Python: sequencing better playlists than the app, and surviving the 2026 API renames
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Spotify playlist CLI in Python: sequencing better playlists than the app, and surviving the 2026 API renames

#showdev #python #api #opensource
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Moving off n8n to plain Python on cron: what n8n taught me first
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Moving off n8n to plain Python on cron: what n8n taught me first

#automation #n8n #python #selfhosted
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LLM pricing pipeline bug: when a relevance model set a second-hand price by itself

Why AI pricing pipelines need typed boundaries
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LLM pricing pipeline bug: when a relevance model set a second-hand price by itself

#showdev #ai #python #architecture
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Homelab automation with one AI CLI: a single command deck, one secrets store, no no-code tool
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Homelab automation with one AI CLI: a single command deck, one secrets store, no no-code tool

#ai #devops #security #homelab
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Claude to OpenCode + OpenRouter for a homelab coding agent: why, and what it costs now
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Claude to OpenCode + OpenRouter for a homelab coding agent: why, and what it costs now

#ai #llm #opensource #productivity
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eBay sold data sources compared: every second-hand price API I tried, measured
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eBay sold data sources compared: every second-hand price API I tried, measured

#showdev #python #api #programming
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Replacing cloud subscriptions with a £130 fanless home server: the real cost maths
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Replacing cloud subscriptions with a £130 fanless home server: the real cost maths

#homelab #selfhosted #linux #privacy
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Stock ticker symbols aren't identities: why my trading bot bought the wrong company
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Stock ticker symbols aren't identities: why my trading bot bought the wrong company

#python #api #testing #programming
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Home Assistant with an AI agent: what I let it run, what I kept, and why
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Home Assistant with an AI agent: what I let it run, what I kept, and why

#ai #homeassistant #homelab #automation
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Free alternatives to paid data APIs: most of the paywall is just a nicer URL
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Free alternatives to paid data APIs: most of the paywall is just a nicer URL

#webdev #api #productivity #opensource
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Building an internal tool to replace SaaS: the hard part is auth for the second user
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Building an internal tool to replace SaaS: the hard part is auth for the second user

#architecture #webdev #security #programming
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IMAP FETCH RFC822 marks email as read: the bug that marked 9,133 emails read (use BODY.PEEK)
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IMAP FETCH RFC822 marks email as read: the bug that marked 9,133 emails read (use BODY.PEEK)

#python #debugging #programming #testing
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NetBird vs Tailscale: why I self-host my mesh VPN, and where Tailscale still wins
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NetBird vs Tailscale: why I self-host my mesh VPN, and where Tailscale still wins

#selfhosted #networking #security #tailscale
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Self-hosted secrets manager for a homelab: one home for every secret, and the traps
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Self-hosted secrets manager for a homelab: one home for every secret, and the traps

#security #devops #homelab #architecture
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Multi-agent AI with a shared task board: one self-hosted agent, six jobs, idea to live
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Multi-agent AI with a shared task board: one self-hosted agent, six jobs, idea to live

#ai #llm #productivity #automation
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Homelab architecture run like a small company: the org chart, and the rules I learned by breaking things
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Homelab architecture run like a small company: the org chart, and the rules I learned by breaking things

#architecture #devops #homelab #opensource
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Authelia SSO for a whole homelab: what worked, what didn't, and the lesson that nearly undid it
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Authelia SSO for a whole homelab: what worked, what didn't, and the lesson that nearly undid it

#security #selfhosted #authelia #homelab
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n8n trading bots that reported success but never sold: testing automated trading
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n8n trading bots that reported success but never sold: testing automated trading

#python #testing #ai #devops
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DNS rate limit dropping queries (AdGuard): 39,662 lost lookups that looked like timeouts
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DNS rate limit dropping queries (AdGuard): 39,662 lost lookups that looked like timeouts

#networking #debugging #linux #homelab
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Spotify Web API playlist items changed: why your reader now gets a boolean for 'track'
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Spotify Web API playlist items changed: why your reader now gets a boolean for 'track'

#api #programming #python #webdev
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Quadro P600 in a ZimaBlade: why a dead GPU degrades gracefully and a working one crash-loops
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Quadro P600 in a ZimaBlade: why a dead GPU degrades gracefully and a working one crash-loops

#homelab #linux #debugging #hardware
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