root@labs:~$ make something

What we build, and what we think about it.

Projects are the technical record: what we built, how, what we'd do differently. The blog is everything else, posted when there's something worth saying.

cd /projects cat blog/latest
root@labs:~$ ./status.sh
✓ site rebuilt and online
✓ latest post: Patching your FortiGate did not rotate the password it already leaked
… in progress: The Synology (RS815+)
✓ forum: Home networking: what’s actually running your network?

recent-entries

LOG-007 synology The Synology (RS815+) Years of runtime, relearned every time DSM changes. ● active LOG-006 media-server Home Media Server A NAS, a media server, and an automation stack that never really finishes. ● active LOG-005 homelab Rebuilding rootlabs.us New AWS home, Caddy, PHP, WordPress, and the redesign you're looking at. ● active LOG-004 3d-printing The print lab FDM and resin printing: functional parts, jigs, and beautiful failures. ○ ongoing LOG-003 electronics Smart home, the hard way Automating the house one stubborn device at a time. ○ ongoing

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Root Labs is where the fun stuff goes. A lab for after-hours engineering: homelab, 3D printing, electronics, software, and whatever we get our hands on next. No clients, no tickets, no invoices. Projects, experiments, and honest write-ups of both.

blog --latest

2026-08-26 news Patching your FortiGate did not rotate the password it already leaked Half of internet-facing FortiGate firewalls had working credentials cracked this summer, and the FortiOS upgrade that was supposed to fix… read → 2026-08-26 guides Getting Started with Your QNAP: First-Time QTS Setup QTS 5.2 from unboxing to a working volume: Qfinder Pro, why storage pools and volumes are two separate steps, and… read → 2026-08-26 news The Steam Machine got bad reviews and sold out in 10 minutes anyway The Steam Machine got a 62/100 review average and sold out in 10 minutes anyway. Both are true because of… read → 2026-08-26 news 150 protests, 42 states, one month: the pushback against AI data centers Nearly 150 protests against AI data centers happened across 42 states in one month. What the water and power numbers… read → 2026-08-26 news Flock cut camera data retention from 30 days to 7. Here’s why that took this long. Flock Safety cut its default data retention from 30 days to 7 after a wave of cities canceled contracts. What… read →