A coding blog about my self-hosted homelab — a NAS running a Docker-based stack with the *arrs, Plex, Immich, File Flows, and Homebridge.
Edu Links: A Home for the Resources I Kept Losing Between Units
There’s no shortage of good education sites out there – inquiry blogs, subject hubs, official IB resource centres, worksheet generators, planning frameworks – and there are more of...
Read post →Getting a Samsung Soundbar into HomeKit: A Homebridge Plugin, Shipped Twice
The soundbar in the lounge does AirPlay 2 fine, but it has never once shown up in the Home app’s “Add Accessory” flow – Samsung just never built...
Read post →The One Docker Mount That Makes the *arrs Actually Work
If you run Sonarr, Radarr or Lidarr in Docker and imports feel slow, or your free space drops by the size of every episode twice, the cause is...
Read post →Getting My Electric Car into HomeKit, and Proving One Feature Was Impossible
I drive an MG4, and like most modern EVs it comes with a phone app – “iSmart” – for checking battery level, locking the doors, and firing off...
Read post →Immich: Photos Alongside iCloud, and Slowly Instead of It
This is an all-Apple house, so iCloud Photos is the path of least resistance and it works well. That is precisely the problem. It is the one part...
Read post →Audiobooks and Music: The Messy Half of the Media Stack
Video is a solved problem. Sonarr and Radarr find things, Plex plays them, and most weeks I do not think about it. Music and audiobooks are the other...
Read post →Running Homebridge for an All-Apple House
Every device in this house that talks to a phone talks to an iPhone. Apple TVs for video, HomePods for audio, and the front door, the garage, and...
Read post →Plex, Docker, and Getting Intel Quick Sync Working Again
I’ve been running Plex for years now, pretty much back to when it first existed. It’s moved through a small graveyard of hardware over that time – an...
Read post →Getting My Garage Door into HomeKit: Forking and Rebuilding a Homebridge Plugin
My garage door is a Centurion – an Australian brand with its own smartphone app and a local API baked into the door’s controller. I run Homebridge for...
Read post →Automating My Media Library with FileFlows
Storage keeps getting more expensive to add, not less – about 17TB in now, before RAID overhead, and every extra drive is a bigger ask than the last...
Read post →Welcome to the Homelab
Hello, and welcome! This blog used to be a home for Mac fleet-management scripts — that work has since wrapped up and those repos are retired. These days...
Read post →Building a Classroom Word Games Site with Claude Code
Not everything I build lives on the NAS. This one’s for my Year 6 class: a free, static, no-login word games site, built almost entirely by talking to...
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