Lab

Notifications, Notifications… and More Notifications

Staying updated when it comes to any part of your life is always crucial, but even more so when it comes to your …

October 8, 2025

Self Hosted Link-in-Bio Solution

It’s nice to keep a link in my Instagram bio that links to some of the stuff I work on, just in case anyone wanted to …

October 5, 2025

Some Notes on the UniFi APs

I recently learnt that you can control the UniFi APs LEDs via SSH, which allows you to script their control. This means …

July 23, 2025

Home Assistant... But Modular

Modularity always helps when it comes to the maintenance of complex systems, and so it should help when it comes to …

July 21, 2025

Controlling My UniFi AP Leds via Home Assistant

The UniFi U7 Pros have these neat LED rings on them, but they can be pretty distracting during the night - so I thought …

July 19, 2025

Self-hosting the UniFi Controller

In order to fully utilise the UniFi APs full feature set, you’ll need to have a UniFi controller of some sort. This can …

July 19, 2025

Self-hosting a Password Manager

Passwords are one of the most important aspects of our digital lives nowadays, making the password manager of your …

June 26, 2025

Automating Node Provisioning

I’m planning to possibly add a Raspberry Pi 2 (Old, I know, but it does the job) to my lab, for providing some key …

June 8, 2025

Networking in the House

Let me just start by saying that I do not need any of this, it is more-or-less just because I can, and want to. Internet …

May 24, 2025

Server Authentication in the lab

Why? One of the central aspects of my setup is the LLDAP server. This allows all services to authenticate using the same …

May 21, 2025

Introduction to the lab

Nodes Let’s take a look into what the ‘(home)lab’ (that’s quite a generous word) consists of… 1 Raspberry Pi 5 1 …

May 21, 2025