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My Home Network

In the past, I've used a variety of vendor provided hardware to work at the edge of my home network. They're all too eager to give away free gear in hopes of getting in the door of your employer. Anyways, it was high time I rolled my own HW.

My decision was a toss-up between raw linux on a Pi, or OPNsense on a mini PC. I opted for the latter... Mostly due to the popularity around OPNsense / PFsense and some of the simplicity gains there. But also, Pi's were hard to come by. A mini PC with more interfaces sounded great for a firewall, so I ordered a Qotom Q750G5

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This Blog

A couple years ago, I stumbled upon Material for MkDocs. When the project added blog support last September, I became a sponsor and started authoring away. Now some 15 months later I'm finally getting around to configuring a proper build/deploy pipeline and actually getting this thing out the door. I've tried and abandoned personal blogging a number of times... hopefully, this time, it sticks.