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Homelab tinkerer 🛠️ Home Assistant, MQTT, monitoring, DNS, and tiny sensors doing boring useful jobs.
Occasionally over-engineering an aquarium 🐠
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A €3 Zigbee leak sensor under an appliance is not clever automation. It just waits quietly for the one event I really don't want to discover by stepping into it.
The important maintenance is boring: test it with a damp cloth, check the alert path, and replace tired batteries before the sensor becomes decoration. #Zigbee2MQTT #HomeAssistant #smarthome
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Documentation is what you write for the future stranger who has the password, SSH access, and the confidence of someone who definitely knows what they are doing.
A note about what changed, where the backup lives, or how to undo it can turn a late-night incident from archaeology into a boring task. Boring is the feature.
#sysadmin #documentation #homelab
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Uptime Kuma is mostly there to confirm that the boring parts are still boring.
A small check after a reboot, a quiet alert before someone notices, and one less service that only exists in memory. Monitoring is not glamorous; it just makes failures less surprising.
#UptimeKuma #homelab #selfhosted
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The most reliable homelab service is usually the one with the least clever magic around it.
Plain config files, boring backups, obvious alerts, and a manual fallback beat automation that only works when everything is perfect.
Friday sysadmin rule: if I can understand it when tired, future me has a chance.
That is not laziness; that is operational design with better marketing.
#homelab #selfhosted #sysadmin #FridayOps
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