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Building a resilient Work from Home network, the OPNsense edition!
Back in March 2021 I wrote about building a resilient Work from Home network using a consumer WAN load balancer (the trusty TP-Link TL-ER5120) to aggregate multiple WAN…
Px-Rack: A Year of Iteration, One Melted Enclosure, and a Multi-Node Home Lab I’m Actually Proud Of
About a year ago I started down a rabbit hole that most of you will probably recognize — trying to build a clean, compact, multi-node home lab without…
RSU Taxation: Why You Shouldn’t Stress About When Your Broker Sells Shares
For many people receiving RSUs, the biggest confusion comes right after vesting:When will the broker sell shares to cover taxes? Here’s the twist:Most brokers don’t let you choose.They…
Operational Considerations for 2‑Node vSphere SDDCs in VMC on AWS
A 2‑node SDDC often appears attractive—lower cost, fast deployment, and seemingly “good enough” for small workloads. But the architecture operates with extremely narrow resilience margins. A single hardware…
Building a VCF 9.x Home Lab in a Box: My Journey Through Three Prototypes
Discover how I built a compact, powerful VMware Cloud Foundation 9.x home lab through three unique prototypes balancing portability, performance, and cost.
Part 04 – Python virtual environments
macOS and Most Linux distribution have some version of python shipped with them. This is both a blessing and a headache. Let’s talk about headaches Installation of python…