- sequin.au: Writing the Lab into Existence On building a blog to document a home lab, why documentation is infrastructure, and what happens when the project that chronicles everything becomes the thing that everything was for.
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- Building the Home AI Lab An overview of REX — the Windows 11 host machine running a fleet of Hyper-V VMs, local LLMs, and MCP-connected network infrastructure.
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- Spec-Driven Development: How to Stop AI Agents from Rewriting Everything Adopting a constitution-first development methodology to prevent AI coding assistants from being creative in ways you did not request. Also: LangGraph for autonomous agents.
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- Clawdia: The AI Assistant That Texts You Security Reports at Breakfast Building an AI home assistant on UbuntuClaw with local LLM inference, Piper TTS, Whisper ASR, and WhatsApp integration. Because your network anomalies deserve a Welsh accent.
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- MCP: Giving AI Agents the Keys to the (Carefully Segmented) Kingdom Building four custom MCP servers so Claude can query your Juniper switch, check pfSense firewall rules, monitor Aruba APs, and manage the Synology NAS. What could go wrong.
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- LiteLLM: One Endpoint to Rule Them All Deploying a LiteLLM proxy on GCP to unify Claude, Gemini, and local Gemma4 behind a single OpenAI-compatible API. Also: why nginx and Redis are doing more work than you'd expect.
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- Gemma4 at Home: Running 26 Billion Parameters on Consumer Hardware vLLM, WSL2, an RTX 5090, and the specific joy of watching a 26B model load into VRAM without catching fire.
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- Vulnerability Management for People Who Enjoy Finding Their Own Problems Running Greenbone/GVM and daily Nmap discovery on KaliLinux. Because knowing what's on your network is better than finding out via a breach notification.
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- Trust No One: Building an Internal PKI, Identity Platform, and Secrets Vault Self-signed certificates are the 'password123' of TLS. Here's how DebIdentity got its own Certificate Authority, an enterprise identity provider, and a password vault — all in Docker.
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- Six VLANs and a Juniper Switch: Networking the Lab Properly Flat networks are fine until they aren't. Segmenting a home lab with enterprise gear, pfSense, and the kind of routing table that impresses nobody at dinner parties.
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- REX: Or How I Justified Buying a 7950X3D for 'the Lab' Every home lab starts with a lie you tell yourself. Mine was: 'I just need one decent machine.'
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