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Mitch Nelson

Homelab

Blinky Lights

I feel like everyone's homelabs go through some kind of a metamorphosis, like a precipice where you know what you need or you just out smart your current setup/storage/memory etc. This is one of those story(s) 2016 Purchased late in the night thanks to some
10 Aug 2026 4 min read
Homelab

Long Alerts and Message Fatigue: A Prometheus Story

I've been getting screamed at by my lab for a few years now. What started in the pursuit of a sysadmin-ish secondment opportunity somehow turned into constant Discord alert messages and, even more disappointingly, still getting Service Desk calls. But damn it all, if I get the
30 Jul 2026 2 min read
Homelab

Baby's first self hosting

I'd like to think everyone remembers the first thing they self-hosted. For some people, it might have been a janky website, NAS to store 1 file or some kind of DNS ad-blocker (à la Pihole). Mostly un-serious but always the first toe in the water.
02 Jul 2026 1 min read
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