Homelab

TrueNAS Scale vs Unraid: ZFS Discipline Versus the USB Boot Stick

Homelab

Storage

TrueNAS Scale vs Unraid: ZFS Discipline Versus the USB Boot Stick

Duncan Hale

Duncan Hale

August 25, 2026

Garage vs MinIO for Home Object Storage: When S3 Compatibility Isn't Enough to Restore

Homelab

Object Storage

Garage vs MinIO for Home Object Storage: When S3 Compatibility Isn't Enough to Restore

Duncan Pell

Duncan Pell

August 25, 2026

Cobra vs clap-rs for a Homelab CLI: When the Flag Parser Becomes Half the Project

Homelab

Software Development

Cobra vs clap-rs for a Homelab CLI: When the Flag Parser Becomes Half the Project

Sable Quinn

Sable Quinn

August 25, 2026

iOS Shortcuts Get Contents of URL vs a Cron Box: When Background Fetch Hits Apple's Wall

Homelab

iOS Automation

iOS Shortcuts Get Contents of URL vs a Cron Box: When Background Fetch Hits Apple's Wall

Gabe Sorenson

Gabe Sorenson

August 25, 2026

Chezmoi vs yadm for Dotfiles: When Two Homelab Boxes Disagree on PATH

Homelab

Linux

Chezmoi vs yadm for Dotfiles: When Two Homelab Boxes Disagree on PATH

Tobias Keller

Tobias Keller

August 25, 2026

WireGuard Site-to-Site vs a Mesh Overlay When Two Houses Share One Backup Target

Homelab

Mesh Networking

WireGuard Site-to-Site vs a Mesh Overlay When Two Houses Share One Backup Target

Rhea Colton

Rhea Colton

August 25, 2026

Docker Compose start_interval vs a One-Shot Healthcheck: Containers That Flip Healthy Before Migrations Run

Docker

Homelab

Docker Compose start_interval vs a One-Shot Healthcheck: Containers That Flip Healthy Before Migrations Run

Ivo Markham

Ivo Markham

August 25, 2026

Mail-in-a-Box vs Stalwart Mail: When the All-in-One Stack Hides a Broken PTR Record

Homelab

Self-Hosted Email

Mail-in-a-Box vs Stalwart Mail: When the All-in-One Stack Hides a Broken PTR Record

Helena Voss

Helena Voss

August 25, 2026

Starlink CGNAT vs a Homelab: When Inbound Ports Are the Product

Homelab

Networking

Starlink CGNAT vs a Homelab: When Inbound Ports Are the Product

Elise Ward

Elise Ward

August 25, 2026

Scrutiny vs a Green SMART Dashboard: Disks That Fail After the Check

Homelab

Storage

Scrutiny vs a Green SMART Dashboard: Disks That Fail After the Check

Keira Lund

Keira Lund

August 25, 2026

soft-serve vs Gitea for a Personal Remote: When You Don't Need Issues

Homelab

Self-Hosting

soft-serve vs Gitea for a Personal Remote: When You Don't Need Issues

Chris Vale

Chris Vale

August 25, 2026

Healthchecks.io Cron vs Uptime Kuma Push: Jobs That Look Alive After a Silent Fail

Homelab

Monitoring

Healthchecks.io Cron vs Uptime Kuma Push: Jobs That Look Alive After a Silent Fail

Diana Vos

Diana Vos

August 25, 2026

Proxmox Backup Server vs restic for VMs: The Restore That Isn't a File Tree

Backups

Homelab

Proxmox Backup Server vs restic for VMs: The Restore That Isn't a File Tree

Gareth Cole

Gareth Cole

August 25, 2026

ntfy vs Pushover vs Gotify: Which Homelab Alert Path Still Wakes You

Homelab

Monitoring

ntfy vs Pushover vs Gotify: Which Homelab Alert Path Still Wakes You

Omar Fenton

Omar Fenton

August 25, 2026

HDD vs SSD in 2026 for Homelab Backups: When Spinning Rust Still Wins

Homelab

Storage

HDD vs SSD in 2026 for Homelab Backups: When Spinning Rust Still Wins

Sasha Pell

Sasha Pell

August 25, 2026

Homelab Backup Restore Drills: Why Borg and restic Green Dashboards Still Fail

Backups

Homelab

Homelab Backup Restore Drills: Why Borg and restic Green Dashboards Still Fail

Ellis Crowe

Ellis Crowe

August 25, 2026

Gitea vs Forgejo vs GitHub: When Self-Hosted Git Stops Being a Weekend Project

Homelab

Self-Hosting

Gitea vs Forgejo vs GitHub: When Self-Hosted Git Stops Being a Weekend Project

Nate Holbrook

Nate Holbrook

August 25, 2026