• Fun and Profit with UNAS Pro 8: NVMe Cache the Hard Way

  Posted on January 31, 2026 by pds hardwarehomelab

  Otherwise known as how to void your warranty but have working stuff… standard disclaimer applies. Before you read further, this is not some glowing gushing Youtube talking head review… go there if that’s what you’re into. Yes, I’m posting this

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• Claude Context at Scale: Managing Sessions Across Environments

  Posted on January 24, 2026 by pds ai

  I’ve been using Claude Code heavily for infrastructure work across multiple environments – homelab, production, various projects. The problem I kept running into: context loss between sessions. You know the drill. You’re deep into debugging something, have Claude fully up

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• Home Lab (2022 Edition)

  Posted on December 23, 2022 by pds hardwarehomelab

  It’s nearing the end of 2022 and it’s time to refresh the homelab again. I recently re-allocated two of the three custom built Supermicro servers previously in the home network cabinet over to a colo cluster, creating a need to

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• UDM-Pro docker container as a Proxmox quorum device

  Posted on July 14, 2020 by pds hardwarehomelabproxmoxubiquiti

  I recently switched the majority of my self-hosted services over to Proxmox running on a custom built 1U supermicro server. It’s been working so well I decided to build a second one, and setup a two node HA cluster to

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• Migrating SmartOS instances to SDC

  Posted on November 9, 2014 by pds homelabjoyent

  If you haven’t heard by now, Joyent has recently open sourced SmartDataCenter and the Manta object storage platform. Most people probably don’t realize it yet but this is a really big deal. Mad props to everyone at Joyent involved in

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