root@labs:~$ make something

After hours: homelab, printing, electronics, news and software.

We build things and write down what actually happened, including the parts that went wrong. Sometimes the result is worth giving away.

./myrgb ↓ download cat blog/latest

new MyRGB 0.4.0, one app for every brand of RGB on your desk. Free, Windows, open beta.

root@labs:~$ ./status.sh
✓ site rebuilt and online
✓ latest post: Home Assistant 2026.11 puts HACS in core, and the code is still unvetted
… in progress: MyRGB 0.4.0 beta
✓ forum: Home networking: what’s actually running your network?

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Root Labs is where the fun stuff goes. No clients, no tickets, no invoices. Nothing here is billable and nothing is a pitch, which is the whole reason it stays interesting to work on.

Most of what gets written up is whatever broke that week, or a piece of news worth more than the headline it arrived with. Occasionally something turns into software we give away.

blog --latest

2026-11-10 software Home Assistant 2026.11 puts HACS in core, and the code is still unvetted Home Assistant 2026.11 shipped November 4 with HACS built in as Marketplace. Migration is automatic, but the project still doesn't… read → 2026-11-06 news Tailscale SSH bug let a peer reach root-only sockets. Update to 1.104.4. A researcher disclosed 11 Tailscale and Headscale findings on October 25. Tailscale's four bulletins from October 26 are fixed in… read → 2026-11-03 news A 9.8 Linux kernel TCP bug, and the reboot you owe your Proxmox host CVE-2026-98432 is a remote use-after-free in the Linux IPv4 TCP handshake, rated 9.8 by the kernel team. Vendors disagree on… read → 2026-10-25 Uncategorized Why I stopped hand-writing my homelab dashboard My Homepage config had grown to about 40 hand-written service entries and over 1,000 lines of custom CSS and JS.… read → 2026-10-25 news MyRGB 0.4.0: fan control, minus the admin app Fan control and CPU temperatures without running the whole app as administrator. One permission prompt sets up a small helper… read →