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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.
The complete journey from remote desktop nightmares and port forwarding hell to a flat mesh network connecting two sites across town. Covers every VPN I tried, subnet routing, ACLs, LXC container hacks, Unraid bare-metal Tailscale, and the routing table fixes that made it all work.
Deploying Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, cAdvisor, Smokeping, Healthchecks, and Promtail on one box. Seven containers, 45 minutes, and one ironic nodejs detour.
The complete timeline of my homelab journey. ESXi to Proxmox, single drives to redundant arrays, VPNs to mesh networks. What worked, what broke, and why I'm still doing this.
Storage archaeology, dashboard building, a power crisis, log floods, network ghosts, phone-guided Proxmox recovery, and the documentation sprint that made it all worth it. The complete story.
I self-hosted RustDesk to replace TeamViewer. Then spent three days debugging why I couldn't connect to anything from inside my own network. NAT hairpinning strikes again.
My storage isn't in one place. Unraid at dad's house, Synology for backups, Tailscale connecting it all. Here's how I manage 40TB across two sites.
Moving from manual SSH and shell scripts to declarative infrastructure management using Ansible playbooks and Terraform.
Running Proxmox VE at a remote location. LXC containers, ZFS storage, VPN connectivity, and managing infrastructure you can't physically touch.
How I went from open ports and pray to zero inbound connections. Cloudflare Tunnels, Zero Trust Access, and the split-horizon DNS trick that makes it all transparent.
I deployed VS Code to a server so I could write code from anywhere. Then I spent more time on authentication than the actual installation.
A subdomain that wouldn't resolve. An SSL certificate that existed but didn't work. Three hours of debugging Synology's certificate management to learn it was never properly assigned.
chown: Operation not permitted. The error message that launched a thousand Stack Overflow searches. Here's what's actually happening with Docker permissions on NAS devices.
16 months of container orchestration on modest hardware. The experiments, the OOM kills, the networking traps, and why I'd still choose K3s for a homelab.
Four days, 463 messages, and one reverse proxy that refused to cooperate. The story of how I containerized my entire infrastructure by sheer stubbornness.
Building a security testing lab at home. From honeypots to Burp Suite, legal considerations to VLAN isolation - everything I learned in the first months of taking home security seriously.
ArgoBox didn't begin in 2023. It started around 2011 as a seedbox in a closet. Then ESXi. Then distributed. Then unified. August 2023 was just when I finally started writing things down.