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: Flock told a city council its cameras do not track individuals. The council found out the next day.
… 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 Flock told a city council its cameras do not track individuals. The council found out the next day. We are against these things, and the reason has nothing to do with which way you vote. Flock told one… read → 2026-08-25 news ESPHome ships its first official starter kit. No soldering, no code. The first official ESPHome Starter Kit shipped this month -- no soldering, no code, $39.99. What's in it, and what… read → 2026-08-24 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 → 2026-08-22 news Home Assistant 2026.8: the port 80 change is not the breaking one A lot of coverage framed the port 80 default as a breaking change. It only affects new installs. The changes… read → 2026-08-21 news Proxmox finally supports ARM. It still will not run on your Raspberry Pi. Proxmox VE 9.2 shipped official ARM64 support with full feature parity. It does not run on a Raspberry Pi, and… read →