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Re-doing my Homelab with NixOS

05 Apr 2026

It's been a little more than 2 years since my earlier homelab post (here). I moved onto a shiny 8GB Raspberry Pi 5 shortly afterwards (from an RPi4) and worked on a few things. This post is a continui…

Quirks of self-hosting an overlay networking tool (ft. Headscale)

06 Mar 2026

I self-host headscale on a VPS through the built-in NixOS module to remotely access a handful of personal devices and I find it works well. Within the last month, my headscale stopped working somehow …

Streaming my Jellyfin media from RPi5 to a decade old Fire TV Stick (2nd Gen)

18 Dec 2025

I own a decade old Amazon Fire TV Stick (Gen 2) which only supports H.264 hardware decoding. I've a couple of HEVC encoded media files on my self-hosted Jellyfin instance which runs on my RPi5. RPi5 a…