Devlogs
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42 posts on homelab builds, browser games, self-hosted tools and the occasional expensive mistake.
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!
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
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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A Guide to Using Exo for LLM Clusters
Exo splits a large language model across several machines. Here's how to set it up on a Proxmox cluster, and the hardware reality that made …
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Proxmox Cluster on 3 Lenovo ThinkCentre Minis
Building a 3-node Proxmox VE cluster out of Lenovo ThinkCentre M710q Tiny PCs — what they cost, what they can take, and what went wrong on t…
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👋 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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How I Built a Full Trivia Game System with Unity WebGL, PHP, Leaderboards and an admin panel in 3 Days (and Why It’s So Much More Than Just a Game)
So here we are — after three intense but awesome days of development, TriviaRush is officially alive and kicking (okay, maybe still getting …
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Does Jellyfin Play FLAC? Yes, and When It Doesn't
Jellyfin plays FLAC natively on most clients. The trouble starts when something forces a transcode — here's when that happens, and the conve…
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🚨 New Community Alert: Join “Lab Rats — HomeLab Builders & Enthusiasts” on Facebook! 🧪💻
If you’ve ever racked a server in your basement, spun up a Proxmox cluster on old hardware, or celebrated a flawless pfSense firewall setup …
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Setting Up a RAID 1 Media Server on AlmaLinux 9 with Cockpit and mdadm
In my latest upgrade to my home lab, I set out to build a reliable and redundant network storage solution for my media server. My goal was t…
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The Whimsical Journey of Crafting utubemp3.net: Bugs, Bills, and Beats
utubemp3.net Embarking on the adventure of creating utubemp3.net was like deciding to build a spaceship in my backyard—ambitious, exhilarati…
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Home Lab Chronicles: A Middle-Aged Man’s Descent Into Nerdvana
HomeLab Ah, the home lab—where middle-aged men like me rediscover the joys of problem-solving, break things just to fix them again, and star…
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