John's Tech Blog

Notes on Linux, networking and open source

Setting up a home lab with Proxmox

May 12, 2025 · 8 min read

After years of running VMs on my desktop, I finally dedicated an old ThinkStation to a proper Proxmox setup. Here's what I learned along the way...

Why I switched from Nginx to Caddy

March 3, 2025 · 5 min read

Automatic HTTPS, clean config syntax, and zero dependency hell. Caddy has quietly become my go-to web server for personal projects.

ZFS snapshots for the paranoid

January 19, 2025 · 6 min read

Backups are not backups until you've tested restoring from them. Here's my automated ZFS snapshot and replication workflow.