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The Camera Feed Stutter That Wasn't a Network Problem (Until It Was)
My Home Assistant camera stuttered only across VLANs. iperf3 showed 1.87 Gbps, 0% loss. The real cause: a moving WebRTC port my firewall rule never covered.
The Further You Get, The More It Stings: How to Respond to Job Rejection at Every Stage
From ATS filters to final-round losses, here's what peer-reviewed research actually says to do after a job rejection, and why the next 72 hours matter most.
IPv8 Wants to Replace IPv6. Here's Why It Probably Won't.
A new IETF draft proposes IPv8 with 64-bit addresses and IPv4 backward compatibility. Can it succeed where IPv6's 28-year climb to 50% adoption stalled?
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How to Build Your Own Router/Firewall Using Proxmox
The exact hardware used to build a dedicated Proxmox node running OPNsense and Pi-hole: component choices, PCIe constraints, and a full cost breakdown.
netcensus, a cross-vlan network monitor
A unified 'God View' of every device on the homelab (bare metal, VMs, LXCs, and containers) discovered via authenticated APIs instead of raw sockets.
n8n Homelab Docs Pipeline
Automated homelab documentation pipeline. n8n pulls live state from OPNsense, diffs it, and triggers Claude Code over SSH to regenerate Obsidian Markdown and NetBox YAML on every change.
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