Weekly Shaarli

All links of one week in a single page.

Week 23 (June 2, 2025)

How (and why) I chose to use Ubuntu on my second home lab server
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After using Proxmox on my primary server, I decided the second system would be Ubuntu on bare metal.

Node-RED has replaced my complex Home Assistant automations, and it does them so much better
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The self-hosting ecosystem is rife with cool and quirky apps designed to automate every facet of your life. There’s the holy Terraform and Ansible combo for home lab enthusiasts who love watching VMs come to life without pressing a single button, while n8n can handle all software-based automations. On the smart home side, you’ll often find Home Assistant as the most recommended utility for creating schematics to control your IoT gadgets. And well, HASS can serve you well with its trigger-action workflows.