SumGuy's Ramblings
The art of wasting time.
Docker, self-hosting, AI/LLM, Linux, and DevOps — explained by someone who learned the hard way. No fluff, no enterprise jargon, just practical stuff that actually works on real hardware.
Recent Posts
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Home Assistant Energy Dashboard with Shelly
Power monitoring with Shelly EM/Pro/3EM, Home Assistant energy dashboard, circuit-level metering, solar+grid tracking, and wiring sanity checks.
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Z-Wave vs Zigbee in 2026
Z-Wave vs Zigbee: range, mesh, cost, and which radio protocol to choose for home automation in 2026.
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Matter and Thread for the Suspicious
Matter and Thread protocol overview: what actually works in home labs, what's vaporware, and why you should be skeptical of the hype in 2026.
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HyperDX vs OpenObserve
HyperDX (ClickHouse, session replay) vs OpenObserve (Rust, cheap object storage), two modern self-hosted observability platforms compared for homelabbers.
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Garrul: The Audit Found My Rate Limiter
A security audit of Garrul, my Cloudflare Workers comment system, found 2 critical bugs. Both had the same root cause as one I had already fixed in June.
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Home Assistant Backups That Actually Restore
Home Assistant disaster recovery: off-site backups, secrets handling, Z2M coordinator, restore drills that catch missing pieces.
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Calibre-Web vs Calibre Server vs Kavita
Self-hosted ebook library showdown: Calibre-Web vs Kavita. Which stack handles your comics, manga, and ebooks?
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Multiple Claude Code Accounts, One Config
Run several Claude Code accounts on one Linux machine. CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR plus symlinks share your skills, hooks and history while each login stays isolated.
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Navidrome vs Funkwhale: Self-Hosted Music
Navidrome vs Funkwhale for self-hosted music streaming. Subsonic API support, mobile clients, federation, and which one fits a homelab in 2026.
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Tautulli Beyond Plex Stats
Tautulli's notification webhooks, automation, transcode alerts, and custom triggers unlock Plex monitoring beyond leaderboards and statistics charts.
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Overseerr vs Jellyseerr
Overseerr vs Jellyseerr media request UIs: Plex-only vs Jellyfin/Emby. Setup, auth, Sonarr/Radarr integration.
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The *arr Stack Without 9000 Reddit Threads
Self-hosted *arr stack (Sonarr, Radarr, Prowlarr, Bazarr) with durable Docker Compose. Hardlinks, folder layout, no breakage.
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