Where we hang out.
Homelabbers, infrastructure nerds, AI tinkerers, and anyone who thinks debugging at midnight is a valid hobby. No corporate energy. Just engineering.
Where To Find Us
Three places, three speeds. Real-time chat, async code, and long-form writing.
Discord
The main hub. Real-time chat about homelab builds, infrastructure, AI pipelines, and whatever we're tinkering with at 2 AM.
Join the Server →GitHub
Discussions, issues, and code. Open source projects, collaborative builds, and a place to file "this broke at midnight" reports.
View on GitHub →Blog & Journal
Build logs, debugging sessions, and the occasional rant about Gentoo compile times. The "build in public" part, in long form.
Read the Logs →What We Talk About
If it plugs in, compiles, or serves HTTP — it's on-topic.
How We Roll
Three principles. Not rules — more like the vibe.
Build In Public
Every system is documented. Every mistake is shared. The lab is transparent because the best learning happens when someone shows their work — including the failures.
No Gatekeeping
Ask questions. Share half-finished projects. Nobody here pretends infrastructure is easy or that they never broke production on a Saturday night.
Real Engineering
Not tutorials about tutorials. Actual infrastructure, actual problems, actual solutions. We compile Gentoo packages and complain about it together.
From The Lab
Recent build logs. Proof that "build in public" isn't just a tagline.
Parallel Claude Development — Solving pnpm Conflicts at Scale
How I built a worktree-based system to run multiple Claude instances safely, eliminating pnpm lockfile conflicts that were blocking builds 4x daily
Mar 10, 2026Nine Open-Source Projects, One Homelab
EdgeMail, Argonaut RAG, Build Swarm, Tendril, OpenClaw, apkg, Argo OS — all built with AI assistance, all running on real infrastructure. Here's what each one does and how to contribute.
Mar 10, 2026The Rate Limit Cascade: How wakeMode Took Down Five Providers in Ten Seconds
I restarted a container and every free-tier LLM provider went down at the same time. Groq, Cerebras, SambaNova, OpenRouter, NVIDIA NIM — all exhausted in a chain reaction that started with a single config flag.
Come hang out.
No signup walls. No email drip campaigns. Just a Discord server full of people who build things and break things.