Selected work

Self-hosting · Infrastructure

MeremLab Homelab

A self-hosted Linux environment for learning, operating services, and experimenting with private AI workloads.

System overview
InputEventProcessingOutcome

Overview

The problem

Create a dependable hands-on environment for infrastructure practice without relying on opaque managed systems.

Architecture

Self-hosted platform

This page is the project’s living design document: the context, key system flows, trade-offs, and follow-up work belong here alongside the implementation.

Infrastructure

Technology choices

LinuxDockerNextcloudPi-holeOllama

Engineering notes

What I am optimizing for

  • Service isolation
  • Local LLM experiments
  • Operational documentation

The full story

Architecture decisions, challenges, and lessons belong in the journal.

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