A MagicMirror² dashboard with weather, Home Assistant, Spotify, news, stocks and webcams, now rotating through two read-only Grafana pages for the home lab. Covers the hardware history, the kiosk setup and how Grafana is embedded safely.
How I centralised logs and metrics for my homelab with Grafana, Loki, Prometheus and Grafana Alloy, and what I learned about push-based collection, alerting and code-generated dashboards.
How I run NextPVR alongside Jellyfin in a single LXC container to provide live TV, and how a one-line config setting broke every channel behind a generic transcoder error.
A modular Mutt configuration: per-account switching, msmtp for sending, and colour themes you can swap without touching the core config.
A resilient Linux workstation backup system using rsync over SSH to a Synology NAS, with automated scheduling, timeout protection, and email reporting.