Blog#

Dated entries, split by project. What is written here describes a state at a point in time — anything with a longer shelf life moves into the notes.

Homelab — thin client, DNS, network segmentation. One step per entry.
Shopware Shop — building a shop of my own, starting from an empty environment.
Fitty — a personal fitness companion with daily chat, food and activity tracking for iOS and the web.
Open WebUI — experimenting with local AI and asking questions about my documentation with source citations.

Below that, all entries together, newest first. Each project has its own RSS feed.

Homelab, step eight — Preparing a dedicated Minecraft LXC

October 4, 2026

Homelab

A dedicated LXC on Proxmox is now prepared for the children’s Minecraft server and has been added as a server in Coolify. It has its own address in the server VLAN and separate resources. This entry records the setup commands, including a locale …

Homelab, step seven — Coolify in its own LXC

October 4, 2026

Homelab

The Proxmox cluster now runs a dedicated LXC container for Coolify. The container has Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, a static address in the server network and Docker underneath Coolify. This provides the environment where I can deploy my applications next.

Homelab, step six — firewall rules and lower Wi-Fi utilisation

October 4, 2026

Homelab

The six network segments now have the firewall rules that were missing after the VLAN rebuild. Guests, IoT and kids have limited access, and router administration is blocked from those networks. The DNS server is also back on a gigabit link, and the two …

Homelab, step five — two Proxmox nodes, one interface

September 29, 2026

Homelab

Both Proxmox servers are set up and now form the xlab cluster. pve01 and pve02 can be managed together. The third vote comes from the thin client already running Pi-hole.

Homelab — new blocklists for Pi-hole

September 27, 2026

Homelab

I have fine-tuned my Pi-hole setup and added more HaGeZi blocklists. DNS queries in the homelab already go through the filter; this time, the change is to the rules it uses to make its decisions.

Homelab, step four — tidied up, Proxmox is next

September 26, 2026

Homelab

Homelab, step four — tidied up, Proxmox is next#

Part three was about VLANs, firewall rules and a network that did not always do what it was supposed to during the rebuild. By now, the network rebuild is finished for the time being. Everyone at home has …

Homelab, step three — cutting the network into segments

August 23, 2026

Homelab

Homelab, step three — cutting the network into segments#

Part two ended with a clean setup and a plan for the next step: five segments instead of one flat /16. The plan had been sitting there finished for days, with a numbered order for the rebuild …

Homelab, step two — who the DNS server trusts

August 20, 2026

Homelab

Homelab, step two — who the DNS server trusts#

Part one ended with Pi-hole running and the observation that a service that runs and a service that gets used are two different things. Three points were left open. Two are now done, and the third deliberately …

Homelab, Step One — A Thin Client Running Debian 13

August 16, 2026

Homelab

Homelab, Step One — A Thin Client Running Debian 13#

I am building a homelab. Not a rack in the basement, but something that grows one piece at a time: one machine, one service, write it down, keep going.

The first node is a thin client. For a start that …