Homelab on BadgerOps

People Are Actually Using This Thing

Wed, 28 Oct 2026 12:35:00 +0000

(Or, how my homelab provider turned into actual open source maintenance)

Back in May I wrote about shipping a UniFi Terraform provider. It had been out for about a week and the Terraform Registry showed 153 downloads. I was pretty happy with that. The provider worked against my controller, a couple of folks in Matrix had kicked the tires, and I could finally manage my firewall rules without clicking through the Network UI.

Training a Small Model on My Own Home Network

Sun, 04 Oct 2026 16:31:01 +0000

(Or, me fighting a 0.6B model and my own measurement errors, in that order)

I have been using LLMs for a couple of years now - well, since ChatGPT was announced. I have not, until this summer, actually trained one.

Treating OpenClaw Like a Junior Sysadmin

Wed, 20 May 2026 20:10:59 +0000

Edit:
As of August 2026 I no longer use OpenClaw, primarily now I use pi.dev, claude code, codex, and Hermes these days. Things move fast, and I didn't really like the amount of time I was doing care and feeding of OpenClaw.

I wanted to kick the tires on OpenClaw, but I did not want to install it directly on my primary workstation.

Why I Wrote a New Terraform Provider for UniFi

Mon, 18 May 2026 20:51:00 +0000

I have been doing more work around local UniFi management lately, and one thing kept bothering me: there was not a Terraform workflow for UniFi that I actually wanted to use.

(Yes, there are several other UniFi providers out there - but they all basically forked the O.G. provider: https://github.com/paultyng/terraform-provider-unifi, and provide a small amount of additional feature support on top of that [now archived] provider. Moving on.)

Building an In-App Auto-Updater for a Containerized NixOS Deployment

Tue, 10 Feb 2026 16:16:00 +0000

I've been building Grapheon, a network graph analysis and visualization tool, and deploying it as a pair of Podman containers on NixOS. The stack is pretty straightforward: a FastAPI backend, a React frontend, both published as container images to GitHub Container Registry (GHCR), and wired together with a NixOS module that manages everything through systemd services.