September 2023
Raspberry Pis are back!
Finally! Like many others, I’ve been waiting on stock of Raspberry Pi 4’s to come back to start a new project I’ve been wanting to work on for some time, and a couple of weeks ago it finally happened. I picked up eight Pi 4’s and got to finalising the design. OK hold up, why? Great question before we get started, what’s the point? I’ve been wanting to expand the application I run in my homelab away from a single point of failure for some time, not only for better service availability (which let’s be honest is only for my benefit and nerd points) but also as a learning experience to start to understand the practicality behind these architectures, which I’ve wanted to do for some time.
6 minutes
April 2023
Conserving power and compute.
HomeLabbing is great. I love HomeLabbing, it lets you totally have control over the data you generate, understand free and open source systems and do so without consequences (like breaking something important at work). I think it’s an invaluable tool, and helped me build the knowledge to land my job. How did I get into it? My HomeLab started as a simple Ubuntu box running a SAMBA share, on an old motherboard that would have gone to e-waste, with a crumby i3, 4GB of RAM, but it booted, and that’s just about all the specs you realistically need for a barebones Ubuntu Server install.
5 minutes