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This is where I publish essays, notes, and reflections.
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Where Notes Can Be Remembered
A wiki does not make a homelab more capable. It makes it more knowable. And a lab you can know is easier to extend, easier to maintain, and easier to hand back to yourself after a gap of weeks or months when memory has started to blur the details.
What You Build Now to Protect What Matters Later
Backups are one of those things you build for a day you hope never comes. They do not feel exciting in the way new services do, but they are one of the clearest signs that a homelab is becoming something you are willing to trust.
Defender on Linux in Practice
Defender on Linux can add real value, but the real lesson is not to trust the idea of protection more than the evidence of it. In practice, quick scans, logging, and reliability are more uneven than many people expect.