// Blog
Writings on engineering, homelabs, and the occasional rabbit hole.
2026
Building My Proxmox Homelab, Part 4: From One Disk to a Storage Layer
How I passed a 10 TB drive through to TrueNAS, designed storage boundaries, and deployed Paperless-ngx with storage-gated startup and restore-tested database backups.
HomelabProxmoxSelf-hostingVirtualizationDockerLinuxStorageTrueNASPaperless-ngxBuilding My Proxmox Homelab, Part 3: When the Storage Plan Fought Back
A failed storage drive, a reboot-only Docker bug, a private research vault, stronger backups, and an automation experiment that taught me when to stop.
HomelabProxmoxSelf-hostingVirtualizationDockerLinuxStorageSyncthingAutomationBuilding My Proxmox Homelab, Part 2: From a Box of Parts to an Actual Homelab
Building out my Proxmox homelab with tested backups, UPS shutdown, remote access, monitoring, a dedicated Docker VM, and the first self-hosted services.
HomelabProxmoxSelf-hostingVirtualizationDockerLinuxBuilding My Proxmox Homelab, Part 1: Planning the Hardware
How I planned a quiet, upgradeable Proxmox homelab for development, OMSCS coursework, self-hosting, and future local AI workloads.
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