Homelab

For a long time, my Mac Mini was the unintended backbone of my workflow. What started as a few local workflows, soon blossomed into a workflows for emails, scheduled jobs, Home Assistant alerts etc. It’s a great machine, and it handled my daily tasks alongside a growing list of background services-MongoDB, Postgres, Redis, and n8n-without breaking a sweat. It even ran my local AI models via Ollama. But then came the “lab creep.” I started adding more: a MagicMirror instance for the family calendar, Excalidraw for diagrams, and various utility containers. ...

One of the frustrating thing about being online these days is the obnoxious number of ads that litter each and every website. Some of these sites are so full of ads that it’s just impossible to get to the content. Take a look at Yahoo Finance for example Yahoo Finance Half the page is an ad. There are worse offenders out there. Sites that greet you with a mess of loud, inconvenient ads before you can get to the content. It’s not just annoying; it pulls your focus away from what you came looking for in that website. ...