Infrastructure, homelab, Kubernetes, and self-hosting notes from Hal Borland.https://halbor.land/en-ushttps://halbor.land/blog/i-built-a-ramble-app-to-turn-half-formed-thoughts-into-blog-posts/https://halbor.land/blog/i-built-a-ramble-app-to-turn-half-formed-thoughts-into-blog-posts/This post started as a test with no topic. I opened an app I’ve been tinkering with, hit record, and started talking. The idea was to send my rambling to an AI agent and see if it could help me turn it into something…Fri, 23 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTSelf-HostingSelf-Hostingvoice notesAI writingbuildingproductivitybloggingcontent workflowvoice-firstramble appHal Borlandhttps://halbor.land/blog/your-own-test-automation-environment-ansible-does-the-heavy-lifting/https://halbor.land/blog/your-own-test-automation-environment-ansible-does-the-heavy-lifting/MDN's guide to local Selenium setups is fine. But if you're not automating the automation with Ansible, you're doing it wrong.Wed, 16 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTAnsibleAnsibleansible automation orchestratorselenium webdrivertest automation environmentansible playbooksmall business testingHal Borlandhttps://halbor.land/blog/claude-mythos-found-10000-flaws-your-homelab-is-next/https://halbor.land/blog/claude-mythos-found-10000-flaws-your-homelab-is-next/Anthropic's Claude Mythos found 10k+ software flaws in Project Glasswing. Here's what that means for your homelab and how to use AI-assisted auditing.Tue, 08 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTSelf-HostingSelf-HostingClaude MythosProject Glasswingvulnerability detectionhomelab securityAI code auditHal Borlandhttps://halbor.land/blog/crowdstrike-falcon-flank-your-security-agent-is-now-an-attack-surface/https://halbor.land/blog/crowdstrike-falcon-flank-your-security-agent-is-now-an-attack-surface/FalconFlank zero-day lets low-privilege users reach SYSTEM via the Falcon agent. Here's what it means for your stack and what to do.Tue, 08 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTLinuxLinuxCrowdStrikeFalcon2026FalconFlankzero-dayHal Borlandhttps://halbor.land/blog/k3s-vs-k8s-why-the-home-lab-keeps-choosing-the-underdog/https://halbor.land/blog/k3s-vs-k8s-why-the-home-lab-keeps-choosing-the-underdog/KodeKloud's K3s vs K8s breakdown confirms what the home lab already knows: control plane overhead is a tax, not a virtue, and SQLite is fine.Thu, 25 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMTKubernetesHal Borlandhttps://halbor.land/blog/proxmox-ve-90-debian-13-lvm-snapshots-and-sdn-fabrics/https://halbor.land/blog/proxmox-ve-90-debian-13-lvm-snapshots-and-sdn-fabrics/Proxmox VE 9.0 is out with Debian 13 Trixie, thick LVM snapshots, SDN Fabrics, and affinity rules. Here's what matters for home lab engineers.Thu, 25 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMTProxmoxHal Borlandhttps://halbor.land/blog/managed-open-source-observability-in-2026-a-working-engineers-notes/https://halbor.land/blog/managed-open-source-observability-in-2026-a-working-engineers-notes/Managed open-source observability in 2026 runs vanilla Prometheus and Loki. Here is what I evaluate and how I migrate without losing my stack.Wed, 24 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMTObservabilityobservabilityinfrastructurehome-labHal Borlandhttps://halbor.land/blog/proxmox-ve-90-is-here-im-not-upgrading-yet/https://halbor.land/blog/proxmox-ve-90-is-here-im-not-upgrading-yet/Proxmox VE 9.0 dropped in August with a new Debian base, kernel bump, and UI changes. Here's why I'm waiting before touching my cluster.Wed, 24 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMTProxmoxHal Borlandhttps://halbor.land/blog/self-hosting-vaultwarden-argon2-bind-mounts-and-the-rest/https://halbor.land/blog/self-hosting-vaultwarden-argon2-bind-mounts-and-the-rest/Another Vaultwarden Docker guide dropped. Here's what matters—Argon2 hashing, volume strategy, and why I still back up the SQLite file.Wed, 24 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMTSelf-HostingHal Borland