04 Aug 2025
https://ergaster.org/posts/2025/08/04-overegineering-homelab
After years on a VPS, I'm moving my self-hosted services home and using the opportunity to migrate to a more flexible and robust setup.
20 Aug 2025
https://ergaster.org/posts/2025/08/20-cloud-tech-on-prem/
Running VMs at home is more complex than bare metal. But opentofu, cloud-init, and Ansible let me spin up and configure local VMs in seconds.
28 Jul 2025
https://ergaster.org/posts/2025/07/28-direnv-bitwarden-integration
I need to pass credentials to my homelab tools. direnv and the Bitwarden CLI can be hooked together for a simple, sturdy way to keep them safe.
24 Jun 2025
https://ergaster.org/posts/2025/06/24-why-restore-raspi-slow
I want to move my self-hosted services to a Raspberry Pi. I tested it first by restoring a 2.8GB Kopia snapshot from my S3 bucket in Scaleway.
18 Jan 2024
https://ergaster.org/posts/2024/01/18-escaping-surveillance-capitalism-at-scale
Self-hosting and paid subscriptions promise an escape from surveillance capitalism. What guarantees do they really offer, and at what cost?
18 Oct 2023
https://ergaster.org/posts/2023/10/18-checking-ssh-fingerprints
First ssh connection attempts result in a prompt asking you to verify a fingerprint. In a lot of cases, it's okay to skip this verification.
05 Oct 2023
https://ergaster.org/posts/2023/10/05-my-server-can-burn
I want sturdy, cheap, low-maintenance services with disposable hardware. Ansible lets me treat servers as cattle and achieve a lot at very little cost.