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24 posts on homelab builds, browser games, self-hosted tools and the occasional expensive mistake.

Signs613 FAQ & Blog Q&A for Eastern Ontario
Jun 15, 20263 min read

Signs613 FAQ & Blog Q&A for Eastern Ontario

Signs613 FAQ & Blog Q&A for Eastern Ontario Q: Who makes custom business signs in Eastern Ontario? A: If you're looking for professional cus…

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Silicon Pirates, a homelab simulation game built by someone who actually breaks servers
Feb 1, 20265 min read

Silicon Pirates, a homelab simulation game built by someone who actually breaks servers

Silicon Pirates is a browser based homelab and server rack simulation game that focuses on how systems actually behave, not how management U…

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Home Lab Content Bot: Scrapes Reddit, Generates SEO‑Friendly Posts & Auto‑Publishes to WordPress 2025
May 11, 20252 min read

Home Lab Content Bot: Scrapes Reddit, Generates SEO‑Friendly Posts & Auto‑Publishes to WordPress 2025

Over the course of a 12‑hour coding marathon in my home lab, I built a modest yet fully functional Automated Content Posting System . What b…

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Unlock Your Creativity with VisionMapr.com Sleek New Updates: Minimalistic Mind Mapping Made Powerful
May 3, 20252 min read

Unlock Your Creativity with VisionMapr.com Sleek New Updates: Minimalistic Mind Mapping Made Powerful

Visionmapr.com Discover VisionMapr’s latest upgrades—multi‑map management, smooth zoom & pan, dark mode, and a clean, minimalistic interface…

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GPU-Powered AI Unleashed: Upgrading My Homelab with a Proxmox FX-6300 Node
Apr 28, 20252 min read

GPU-Powered AI Unleashed: Upgrading My Homelab with a Proxmox FX-6300 Node

ProxMox Cluster As my homelab continues to evolve, I’m excited to share the latest addition: a GPU-capable Proxmox node purpose-built for lo…

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🚀 Developing My Browser-Based Trivia Games: A Behind-the-Scenes Look
Apr 27, 20253 min read

🚀 Developing My Browser-Based Trivia Games: A Behind-the-Scenes Look

Welcome to my Indie Game Lab — the creative playground behind the games you'll find at DeclinedStudios.com/games ! I wanted to take a moment…

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Trivia Rush Goes Live! What It Took to Build It + What's Next
Apr 15, 20251 min read

Trivia Rush Goes Live! What It Took to Build It + What's Next

Trivia Rush is now officially live and running in the Games hub . This full-featured trivia game was developed in Unity WebGL over just 3 da…

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Welcome to My Modest Homelab Tour!
Apr 6, 20251 min read

Welcome to My Modest Homelab Tour!

Just dropped a quick walkthrough of my humble yet mighty homelab setup! From blinking lights to buzzing fans, witness where the digital magi…

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LabPortal: My Self-Hosted Modular Homelab Dashboard
Apr 6, 20253 min read

LabPortal: My Self-Hosted Modular Homelab Dashboard

Hey everyone! 👋 Over the past few weeks, I’ve been cooking up something in my homelab that started as a "cool idea" and is now a full-blown …

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Setting Up Exo on a 3-Node Proxmox Cluster (And Why I Had to Abandon It)
Apr 6, 20253 min read

Setting Up Exo on a 3-Node Proxmox Cluster (And Why I Had to Abandon It)

I recently explored setting up Exo , a framework for distributing large language models (LLMs) across multiple nodes in a cluster. The goal …

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Building My First Proxmox Cluster (and how I tamed a 3-headed ThinkCentre beast)
Apr 6, 20253 min read

Building My First Proxmox Cluster (and how I tamed a 3-headed ThinkCentre beast)

Let me take you on a nerdy, messy, glorious journey of how I built my very first Proxmox VE cluster using three surprisingly capable Lenovo …

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👋 Welcome to Declined Studios
Apr 3, 20252 min read

👋 Welcome to Declined Studios

Design. Develop. Dominate. (In a totally ethical, caffeine-fueled way.) Hey there! I’m glad you made it. Declined Studios is my creative HQ—…

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