My new home office

My new home office

In our new house there is an 20 m² basement, it consists of two rooms — both 10 m². I have turned the inner room into my new home office/server room, with my electronics lab and homelab.

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Replacing a disk and expanding the ZFS pool

Replacing a disk and expanding the ZFS pool

I’m replacing a disk and and expanding my ZFS 2×RAID-Z2 pool 👇

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Moving to a new house

Moving to a new house

So we bought a new house — now to disassemble everything and prepare to move!

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File server storage migration and expansion

File server storage migration and expansion

My file server, Zeta, has an mdadm RAID6 array with eight 4 TB disks. I want to expand, but before doing so I’m going to migrate to ZFS.

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Stack lights for Alertmanager using Raspberry Pi

Stack lights for Alertmanager using Raspberry Pi

I’m using Prometheus to monitor my home office and homelab, I figured it would be cool to have a stack light show the active warnings and alerts from Alertmanager. So I made a HAT (Hardware Attached on Top) for the Raspberry Pi to drive a five-colored stack light.

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