Hello Raptors

30-May-2026

First post. Getting the blog off the ground, and why homelabbing still matters.

After years of letting other people run my compute, I decided to take some of it back.

This site is the result. A small corner of the web where I document what I’m tinkering with. No analytics, no tracking, no cookie banners. Just text and the occasional schematic.

Why bother

The 90s had something. You could understand a computer. Not fully, but enough. You knew roughly what was happening when you typed a command. That sense of legibility has been systematically engineered out of modern computing.

Homelabbing is one way to get some of it back.

What’s running

The host machine is a 2013 Mac Pro, the trash can. Apple called it a pro machine, then quietly abandoned it. The used market called it a bargain. It runs Proxmox now, which feels like an appropriate second act for hardware that was once someone’s creative workstation.

What’s next

More posts. More tinkering.