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I have revamped my home networking setup, installed raspberry pi, setup adguard on it for the home network, migrated my jellyfin set-up to it, integrated all th
by noisy_boy 6mo ago
I have revamped my home networking setup, installed raspberry pi, setup adguard on it for the home network, migrated my jellyfin set-up to it, integrated all these devices on tailscale, dealt with physical LAN point limitations by setting up a switch, repurposed old router to get around ISP imposed limitations, setup a three tier backup solution and so on. In themselves they are not particularly challenging but taken together, these personal projects had been pending for years.
Not any more. Few weekends and everything has been implemented and I have learned a ton in the process. It has been great fun doing this turbo charged tinkering. I think personal projects are where LLMs shine the brightest.
- henryopen 6mo agoSame arc here — Proxmox host with 5 Linux VMs, 2 Windows boxes, a Pi, all of it the "I'll get to it next weekend" pile that sat for two years. The thing that broke the dam wasn't the coding speed, it was no longer having to write the boring middle layer myself: apt upgrades across 6 hosts, auditing which containers had restart=unless-stopped, certificate rotation. I describe the goal, it does the SSH dance. Whether that's net good for my skills long-term I genuinely don't know yet.
- noisy_boy 6mo agoI made it document it all too. So now that is effectively a skill which means next time I don't need to give it background on my home networking setup. If I want to check something myself, I can read that same document which is part of my Obsidian vault that gets synced to my phone via Syncthing. So I can basically connect to the pi via termux on my android and check stuff from anywhere. Plus, time flies on train rides when you are watching a movie of your choice from jellyfin running on the pi. Very satisfying.