Homelab

The GX10 always reachable, even with the corporate VPN on

Today a small win, the kind worth double: the Scar under the corporate VPN, and from there connected to the GX10 with VS Code Remote as if I were on the sofa. For months those two things couldn’t coexist. ...

The Copilot proxy survives its first shift: builds, a private npm feed and a PAT to revoke

I told you the architecture of the Telegram gateway that mirrors VS Code conversations onto my GX10. This morning was the first shift where the setup did real work — and it produced exactly the kind of morning a blog post never plans for: a .NET solution that wouldn’t build, a private npm feed answering 401, and a personal access token pasted into the chat. Full story, minus the token. ...

My agent leaves the terminal: a Telegram bot for the GX10 and SCAR16

Until recently I could talk to my agent from exactly two places: the GX10’s terminal, or VS Code sitting in front of one of the two machines. An agent that only answers when you’re at your desk is an agent with office hours. ...

Monitoring the GX10: a Prometheus + Grafana dashboard and the week's numbers

My GX10 has been working hard: it runs models locally around the clock, and neither of the previous posts ever said how much. It was time to stop answering “I guess it’s fine” and open a dashboard. Here’s how I built it — and the numbers from its first proper week of work. ...

A week of homelab: CMS, AI covers and two machines that talk to each other

Seven dense days, in which the “blog” project went from being a static site with a makeshift Flask panel to a small ecosystem: a well-written CMS, images generated by the local model, and a direct line between the two machines at home that now also records what I do. I retrace everything in order, with links to the posts already written in detail. ...

Automatic covers with Qwen Image: a CMS that generates its own images

Until today, every article on this blog had an aesthetic problem: no cover image. PaperMod shows covers on the home page, in lists, and at the top of each post — without an image, the layout loses half of its impact. Drawing them by hand every time, though, was the quickest way to stop publishing anything. ...

Connecting the GX10 and the Strix Scar 16: multimedia tests and triggers

Over the past few days I have spent my time optimizing the communication between the two main machines of my setup: my gaming laptop, the Strix Scar 16, and the home server GX10. The goal was clear: create a smooth workflow that lets me leverage the server’s compute power to run heavy local models while using the laptop’s interface for everyday interaction. ...