16 May 2026·6 min read Backing Up a Hetzner VPS to a Synology NAS with Restic and Tailscale How I set up encrypted, incremental, automated backups from a Hetzner VPS to a home Synology NAS using Restic over SFTP, with Tailscale handling the private networking — including the SSH authorised keys rabbit hole.
10 May 2026·13 min read Building a browser-based remote desktop with Apache Guacamole How I built a secure, browser-based remote desktop into my home lab using Apache Guacamole, Hyper-V, and Cloudflare Tunnel — accessible from a locked-down work laptop with nothing to install.
25 April 2026·9 min read Sonos across VLANs on a UDM Pro, done properly A GUI-only walkthrough of running Sonos on a dedicated Media Devices VLAN with a UDM Pro — the mDNS proxy, firewall rules, and port groups that make the Sonos app actually stay connected to players sitting on a different network.
11 April 2026·7 min read Planning a New Home Server My current Hyper-V server is working fine — but the platform is aging out. Here's why I'm rebuilding it, what I'm building, and why the NVIDIA L4 changes what's possible at home.