The first few stages of my portable homelab project were mostly concerned with getting services running. Proxmox was installed on an older HP laptop, containers and virtual machines were created, Firezone provided remote access, AdGuard…
For Part 3 of my travel server project, I made a pretty significant change to the original design. The project originally centered around using Raspberry Pi-style hardware and an older Netgear Nighthawk router. That setup…
I recently came across the Enterprise Agent Design Lab, an AICC 2026 workshop application created by Vetitek. The project is designed to help users reason about how much authority an AI system should have in…
I recently completed a major update to hbtechsolutions focused on making the site more interactive, useful, and easier to navigate for visitors, recruiters, and anyone interested in my technical background. The biggest addition is a…
I needed a clean, lightweight way to monitor my network and side projects. As builders, our first instinct is usually, “I can just code that myself”—so I decided to roll my own Uptime Monitor from…
One of the services I’ve been self-hosting is a live weather map, originally built from a Docker-based template I discovered a few years ago. Recently, an API change caused the application to break, and after…
I recently took steps to further streamline server maintenance in my lab environment. Initially, I created custom scripts to eliminate repetitive manual commands and ensure more consistent execution of routine tasks. To build on that…
For quite some time, I’ve been working through challenges with VNC in an effort to reliably access the graphical interfaces of my Linux virtual machines. While I recognize that many in the Linux community prefer…
It began with WireGuard — a lightweight VPN solution that securely tunneled connections back to a local network. While effective, performance was largely dependent on your network’s upload speed, which wasn’t ideal in every scenario.…
In the past, I attempted to get VMware up and running using my PC tower. While I was successful, I was limited to ESXi 6.7 and chose not to go too far to avoid risking…