lab.badeand.net

Homelabbing, the noble art of turning a living room into a budget data centre. You might start off thinking, “Oh, I’ll just run Pi-hole to block ads.” Next thing you know, there’s a half-rack humming in the corner, the power bill looks like mining Bitcoin, and you argue about whether to use Traefik, Caddy, or nginx for the fifth reverse proxy you didn’t actually need.

And yes, the crown jewel: domains. You buy one for a fiver, slap “lab” on it, and suddenly you feel like Zuckerberg’s evil twin. Every container gets a neat little subdomain, as if anyone but you will ever type `sonarr.lab.badeand.net`. Then, after a few beers, you type just `lab.badeand.net` and land on the digital equivalent of an empty car park. No index page, no redirect, just the void, whispering, “They forgot me.”

I could point it to a dashboard. I could make it a welcome page. But most likely, I’ll leave it blank until 2027, because I’m too busy deploying yet another redundant monitoring tool I’ll forget the password to.

Speaking of forgetting — ever notice how socks just… vanish? Like they’re running their own distributed cluster behind my washing machine. Forget Kubernetes, my laundry has the real orchestration.