EchoLog
Track your personal homelab activities, maintain a streak, and search your journal entries with a modern, app-like interface.
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Homelab | Proxmox | Linux
Hi, I'm Jamie! Welcome to my corner of the internet! This site is my digital workshop. It's a place where I document my adventures in the world of homelabbing. Whether you're a seasoned pro or just starting with a Raspberry Pi, you'll find detailed guides, software recommendations, and step-by-step tutorials on how to deploy exciting projects. My goal is to demystify self-hosting and share the joy of building your own digital playground. Let's learn and build something amazing together!
Open Source Projects
Check out my open source projects on GitHub
IPAM
An intuitive tool to manage your IP addresses, subnets, devices, DHCP pools, and physical rack infrastructure.
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OPNsense Backup Manager
A tool to manage OPNsense configuration backups. Provides an SFTP server with automatic SSH key generation and an interface for viewing and downloading backups.
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Recent articles and tutorials
My Smart Home Brain: A Deep Dive into My Home Assistant Setup
Welcome to a tour of my digital command center! For years, I've been running and refining my smart home using Home Assistant, the powerful open-source home automation platform.
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Upgrade a Windows 10 Proxmox VM to Windows 11
With the end of life date quickly approaching, I decided it was time to make a post about upgrading a Windows 10 VM to Windows 11.
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JDB-NET has a New Look!
Welcome to the new and improved JDB-NET! I'm excited to announce that I've moved on from the old Ghost-powered blog and have replaced it with a brand new site that I've built from the ground up using Flask and a fantastic dark theme from Tailwind CSS.
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Level Up Your Network Management: Introducing Our Self-Hosted IPAM & Datacenter Solution
Tired of juggling spreadsheets and disjointed tools to manage your network's IP addresses and physical hardware? I've been there. That's why I built a comprehensive, self-hosted IP Address Management (IPAM) and datacenter visualisation platform to bring sanity back to network administration.
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Introducing EchoLog: Your Personal Homelab Journal
Every homelab enthusiast knows the journey is one of constant tinkering, learning, and discovery. But how do you keep track of it all? From a minor configuration tweak to a major server overhaul, remembering every command, change, and breakthrough can be a challenge. That's why I created EchoLog - a simple, beautiful, and self-hosted journaling platform designed specifically for you.
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JDB-NET Calendar: Self-Host Your Schedule
In a world where our digital lives are increasingly managed by large corporations, the data we produce, our plans, our appointments, our entire schedule, is often stored on servers we have no control over. I wasn't entirely comfortable with that, which is why I decided to build my own solution: JDB-NET Calendar.
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