# Notes from the lab and from working with AI. - Canonical: https://matheja.me/writing/ - Site: Ben Matheja (https://matheja.me), llms.txt: https://matheja.me/llms.txt Writing 11 posts since 2019. Browse by series, by tag or by year. Series ## Homelab How the lab grew from one hypervisor to a GitOps platform, 2020 to today. 1. [Homelab - Part 1: Overview](https://matheja.me/2020/11/07/homelab-part1.html) (2020) 2. [Infrastructure as Code: From Manual Provisioning to Ansible + Terraform](https://matheja.me/2024/04/15/infrastructure-as-code-journey.html) (2024) 3. [Reflecting on Progress: My Homelab Journey Since 2020](https://matheja.me/2025/01/02/homelab-update.html) (2025) 4. [Homelab: The Next Iteration](https://matheja.me/2025/12/19/homelab-next-iteration.html) (2025) 5. [The Tools Behind My Homelab and How They Fit Together](https://matheja.me/2026/10/09/what-i-host-in-my-homelab.html) (2026) ## Tags - [homelab 9](https://matheja.me/writing/tag/homelab/) - [ansible 5](https://matheja.me/writing/tag/ansible/) - [terraform 4](https://matheja.me/writing/tag/terraform/) - [proxmox 4](https://matheja.me/writing/tag/proxmox/) - [cloudflare 4](https://matheja.me/writing/tag/cloudflare/) - [authentik 4](https://matheja.me/writing/tag/authentik/) - [vault 3](https://matheja.me/writing/tag/vault/) - [traefik 3](https://matheja.me/writing/tag/traefik/) - [gitlab 3](https://matheja.me/writing/tag/gitlab/) - [development 3](https://matheja.me/writing/tag/development/) - [tunnel 2](https://matheja.me/writing/tag/tunnel/) - [talos 2](https://matheja.me/writing/tag/talos/) - [productivity 2](https://matheja.me/writing/tag/productivity/) - [oidc 2](https://matheja.me/writing/tag/oidc/) - [letsencrypt 2](https://matheja.me/writing/tag/letsencrypt/) - [docker 2](https://matheja.me/writing/tag/docker/) - [zero-trust 1](https://matheja.me/writing/tag/zero-trust/) - [unix 1](https://matheja.me/writing/tag/unix/) - [todoist 1](https://matheja.me/writing/tag/todoist/) - [selfhosting 1](https://matheja.me/writing/tag/selfhosting/) - [security 1](https://matheja.me/writing/tag/security/) - [s3 1](https://matheja.me/writing/tag/s3/) - [route53 1](https://matheja.me/writing/tag/route53/) - [restic 1](https://matheja.me/writing/tag/restic/) - [renovate 1](https://matheja.me/writing/tag/renovate/) - [python 1](https://matheja.me/writing/tag/python/) - [obsidian 1](https://matheja.me/writing/tag/obsidian/) - [observability 1](https://matheja.me/writing/tag/observability/) - [mcp 1](https://matheja.me/writing/tag/mcp/) - [kubernetes 1](https://matheja.me/writing/tag/kubernetes/) - [infrastructure 1](https://matheja.me/writing/tag/infrastructure/) - [immich 1](https://matheja.me/writing/tag/immich/) - [gtd 1](https://matheja.me/writing/tag/gtd/) - [garage 1](https://matheja.me/writing/tag/garage/) - [flux 1](https://matheja.me/writing/tag/flux/) - [externaldns 1](https://matheja.me/writing/tag/externaldns/) - [dns 1](https://matheja.me/writing/tag/dns/) - [devops 1](https://matheja.me/writing/tag/devops/) - [data 1](https://matheja.me/writing/tag/data/) - [container 1](https://matheja.me/writing/tag/container/) - [cilium 1](https://matheja.me/writing/tag/cilium/) - [backup 1](https://matheja.me/writing/tag/backup/) - [backblaze 1](https://matheja.me/writing/tag/backblaze/) - [aws 1](https://matheja.me/writing/tag/aws/) - [automation 1](https://matheja.me/writing/tag/automation/) - [ai 1](https://matheja.me/writing/tag/ai/) ## All posts ### 2026 - [The Tools Behind My Homelab and How They Fit Together](https://matheja.me/2026/10/09/what-i-host-in-my-homelab.html) (9 Oct 2026) - [Why I Left Todoist for a Plain-Text TODO.md](https://matheja.me/2026/10/09/why-i-left-todoist-for-a-plain-text-todo-md.html) (9 Oct 2026) - [Self-Hosted Photo Management: Immich Behind Cloudflare Tunnel](https://matheja.me/2026/10/06/immich-photo-management-cloudflare-tunnel.html) (6 Oct 2026) ### 2025 - [Breaking Data Gatekeeping: Extracting Wächtersbach Müllkalender to ICS](https://matheja.me/2025/12/29/waechtersbach-muellkalender-ics-extraction.html) (29 Dec 2025) - [Homelab: The Next Iteration](https://matheja.me/2025/12/19/homelab-next-iteration.html) (19 Dec 2025) - [Replacing Root Tokens with SSO: HashiCorp Vault + Authentik OIDC](https://matheja.me/2025/11/20/vault-oidc-authentik-sso.html) (20 Nov 2025) - [Modular Backup Architecture: From Centralized to Application-Level with Restic](https://matheja.me/2025/08/15/modular-backup-architecture.html) (15 Aug 2025) - [Cloudflare: DNS Migration and Tunnel Integration](https://matheja.me/2025/01/13/dns-migration-cloudflare.html) (13 Jan 2025) - [Reflecting on Progress: My Homelab Journey Since 2020](https://matheja.me/2025/01/02/homelab-update.html) (2 Jan 2025) ### 2024 - [Infrastructure as Code: From Manual Provisioning to Ansible + Terraform](https://matheja.me/2024/04/15/infrastructure-as-code-journey.html) (15 Apr 2024) ### 2020 - [Homelab - Part 1: Overview](https://matheja.me/2020/11/07/homelab-part1.html) (7 Nov 2020) ## Archive Older posts, kept reachable by URL. They are not in the feed and the tools they describe may have moved on. #7 archived posts - [Stop Trying to Make Hard Work Easy](https://matheja.me/2020/08/20/stop-trying-to-make-hard-work-easy.html) (20 Aug 2020) - [Journey to Serverless - Migrated my Todoist Integration to Lambda](https://matheja.me/2020/06/15/transform-todoist-integration-to-serverless.html) (15 Jun 2020) - [Secure your Services with Traefik and Google oAuth](https://matheja.me/2020/04/10/secure-your-services-with-traefik-and-google-oauth.html) (10 Apr 2020) - [Getting Started with Minikube on WSL2](https://matheja.me/2020/04/08/getting-started-with-minikube-on-wsl2.html) (8 Apr 2020) - [Remote Work - Challenges ahead](https://matheja.me/2020/03/20/remote-work-new-challenges.html) (20 Mar 2020) - [Showcase - Build your own Todoist Integration](https://matheja.me/2020/03/14/my-todoist-integration.html) (14 Mar 2020) - [How I'm using Todoist](https://matheja.me/2019/01/03/todoist-markdown.html) (3 Jan 2019)