Homelab enthusiast and former SRE. Runs a small consulting practice and writes about self-hosting, data ownership, and building infrastructure you can touch.
Monitoring
Graylog vs Grafana Loki for Homelab Logs: Full-Text Search or Cheap Labels
Jesse Cole
October 17, 2026
Homelab
Zabbix vs Prometheus for a Homelab: SNMP Templates or Exporters and PromQL
Jesse Cole
October 15, 2026
Homelab
Netdata vs Prometheus and Grafana for One Home Server: When the Full Monitoring Stack Is Overkill
Jesse Cole
October 13, 2026
Networking & Internet Infrastructure
Web Development & Design
Cloudflare Cache vs Server Cache: What's Actually Being Cached?
Jesse Cole
September 27, 2026
Homelab
Local AI
Can a Local LLM Work Completely Without Internet?
Jesse Cole
September 27, 2026
Homelab
Self-Hosting
Reverse Proxy vs Cloudflare Tunnel vs Tailscale: What Does Each One Actually Do?
Jesse Cole
September 27, 2026
Hardware
Homelab
Best Mini PCs for a Home Server: The Used Office Box, the N100, and When Ryzen Is Worth It
Jesse Cole
September 27, 2026
Self-Hosting
Software Development
Rust vs Go for a Homelab Daemon: The Binary You Can Leave Running Unattended
Jesse Cole
September 22, 2026
Productivity
Software Development
The Case for a Homelab in 2026: What You Can Learn That Cloud Can't Teach
Jesse Cole
July 7, 2026
DIY & Maker Culture
Infrastructure & Systems
Setting Up a Home NAS With a Used Synology: What to Expect Before You Buy
Jesse Cole
July 7, 2026
Software Development
Home Server Storage: ZFS RAID-Z2 vs Btrfs RAID on a Single Box (Honest Trade-offs)
Jesse Cole
May 9, 2026
Software Development
Pulumi vs Terraform for Solo Infra: Code That Fits in One Head
Jesse Cole
April 8, 2026
Software Development
OpenTelemetry for Solo Developers: Observability Without the Enterprise Bloat
Jesse Cole
April 8, 2026
Infrastructure & Systems
Why Your Home Network Needs a Guest VLAN in 2026
Jesse Cole
March 15, 2026
DIY & Maker Culture
The Real Cost of Running a Home Lab 24/7 When You Add It All Up
Jesse Cole
March 15, 2026
DIY & Maker Culture
Infrastructure & Systems
Sizing a UPS for Your Homelab: A Practical Guide
Jesse Cole
March 1, 2026
DIY & Maker Culture
Self-Hosted Email: Why Almost Nobody Does It (And When You Might)
Jesse Cole
February 26, 2026
DIY & Maker Culture
Why Your Home Server Needs a UPS (and How to Size One)
Jesse Cole
February 26, 2026
DIY & Maker Culture
Why Building a Pi Hole Was the Best Network Upgrade I Made
Jesse Cole
February 26, 2026
Automation & Productivity
The Case for a Dedicated Automation Server Instead of Your Main PC
Jesse Cole
February 26, 2026
Infrastructure & Systems
The Case for a Local-First Home Server in 2026
Jesse Cole
February 26, 2026
DIY & Maker Culture
The Hidden Complexity of Building a Raspberry Pi Cluster
Jesse Cole
February 25, 2026
DIY & Maker Culture
The Real Cost of Building a Homelab That Actually Stays Up
Jesse Cole
February 25, 2026
DIY & Maker Culture
The Real Cost of Running a Personal Server 24/7
Jesse Cole
February 25, 2026
DIY & Maker
Why Your First Homelab Will Be a Disaster (And That's OK)
Jesse Cole
February 24, 2026
DIY
Hardware
The Case for a Raspberry Pi NAS That Stays Online
Jesse Cole
February 24, 2026
DIY
Why Self-Hosted Tools Are Still a Mess
Jesse Cole
February 24, 2026
DIY
The Case for Building Your Own Home Server in 2026
Jesse Cole
February 24, 2026