A practical, security-conscious guide to Linux ownership, modes, groups, ACLs, umask, Docker UID and GID mapping, network shares, SELinux, AppArmor, and permission troubleshooting.
What a Pterodactyl-managed Minecraft server taught me about separating player authorization, account authentication, network exposure, and panel access.
Publishing completed technical work forces me to separate evidence from memory, useful architecture from private identifiers, and lessons from the exact environment that produced them.
Why I chose UniFi for a home network that needed segmentation, wired multi-AP coverage, useful visibility, and room to experiment without becoming a second full-time job.
A practical architecture and operations handbook for planning a homelab from scratch: workloads, hardware, storage, networking, platforms, security, monitoring, backups, recovery, and the order to build them in.
A practical, start-to-finish guide to deploying, securing, accelerating, backing up, upgrading, and troubleshooting Jellyfin 12 on Ubuntu Server with Docker Compose.
Why Cloudflare fit my requirements for DNS, edge TLS, Git-connected deployment, and public delivery without making the Eldritch IT websites depend on my homelab.