2025

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Today I am reflecting on the year 2025. I try to avoid my personal life on this blog but this year has been more eventful than most.

My first son was born this year, we said goodbye to a feline friend, my vehicle was totaled, AI tools have made big changes in my day to day work, and I have renewed my interest in photography with a Sony mirror-less camera.

Homelab

This year has been about doing more with less. In the homelab, I have shut down my Kubernetes cluster for a while. Currently I am running a homelab with:

  • Raspberry Pi 3b that hosts Adguard Home for DNS filtering
  • Raspberry Pi 4 that hosts Wireguard VPN server, Caddy reverse proxy, Gitea, and n8n
  • Raspberry Pi 5 that hosts Home Assistant
  • Rapsberry Pi 5 that runs nothing but apcupsd and prometheus exporter in garage
  • Synology 4 bay NAS, 14 TB usable RAID 1, Plex, and Navidrome
  • Backup Ubuntu NAS, 4 TB usable RAID 1, and VM with containers such as Kanboard, actual budget, excalidraw, it-tools, Portainer, Prometheus exporters (Blackbox, SNMP, etc), my own containers, and Postgresql servers
  • Mac Mini m4 that hosts Caddy reverse proxy, Adguard Home + sync server, Grafana stack with Loki and Prometheus, and remote desktop target from my macbook
  • Ubiquiti Networks Unifi network switches, gateway, UNVR, and PoE cameras.

The most important equipment is my NAS and UNVR.

I have all of my photos and documents in a secure server and I can back up important archives to the cloud. The UNVR manages Security Cameras, sensors for doors, and records motion events.

AI tools

In the homelab, Opencode along with local models running on Ollama can get you running LLMs on your own hardware and even write code with your own hardware.

I think the best AI coding tool at the end of 2025 is Claude Code from Anthropic along with the Opus 4.5 model.

Beyond 2025

I do not know what the future holds but if it is like the previous year we are in for another wild ride.

As far as my homelab goes, I want to get Kubernetes up again and remove my VM that just has a bunch of random containers. With recent massive price increases for computer memory, I do not intend to purchase any hardware any time soon.

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