Homelab

Politics Dashboard: A Self-Hosted, AI-Summarized News & X Feed Reader Bottom line up front. I built and now open-sourced a self-hosted news dashboard that aggregates political news from RSS or FreshRSS, summarizes each article with a configurable LLM, generates a 24-hour thematic digest, and sits alongside live X/Twitter posts (with per-account AI summaries) via a self-hosted Nitter. Repository: github.com/RobertDWhite/politics-dashboard. License: MIT. Multi-arch images at ghcr.io/robertdwhite/politics-{api,ui}. The image I run in production is the same image GitHub Actions builds from main. ...

Weather Dashboard: A Self-Hosted, NWS-Grade Weather Operations Console Bottom line up front. I built and now open-sourced a self-hosted weather operations dashboard built around the US National Weather Service api.weather.gov and a stack of other free public sources (NOAA SPC, AviationWeather Center, NDBC, USGS, RainViewer, IEM). For fun, I also pull in APRS stations from my SDR rig. It renders active alerts with VTEC parsing and polygon overlays, NEXRAD and MRMS radar with time-machine playback, severe-weather products from SPC including ProbSevere v3 and GLM lightning, aviation METAR/TAF/AIRMET/SIGMET, marine buoys and tides, USGS earthquakes, AirNow AQI, and a 7-day NWS forecast. It speaks CAP 1.2 to other systems, fans out severe alerts to Slack/Discord/generic webhooks, and supports VAPID web push for the browser. Repository: github.com/RobertDWhite/weather-dashboard. License: MIT. Multi-arch images at ghcr.io/robertdwhite/weather-dashboard-{api,ui}. The image I run in production is the same image GitHub Actions builds from main. ...

Introducing GrafLens Whether you operate a production Kubernetes cluster or maintain a homelab sustained by determination and YAML, if Grafana is part of your observability stack, you recognize the frustration of consulting dashboards on a mobile device. Navigating to a Grafana instance via a mobile browser is an exercise in frustration. You encounter compact text, unresponsive panels, and an interface that was never designed for smaller displays. So I decided to create something better. ...

Overview In this post, I will detail how I run my Matrix Server with Docker-Compose, how I use my Matrix Server as an encrypted notifications hub, and how I federate my Matrix Server over a Cloudflare tunnel (using Cloudflare’s Zero Trust interface). Short Cybersecurity Note Matrix Servers can be a part of your cybersecurity stack in your homelab or business. The component pertinent to cybersecurity related to Matrix Servers is encryption. If you’re pursuing a CISSP, you will want to be highly familiar with encryption and the process by which it is achieved. ...

Introduction In this previous post, I detailed my transition from WordPress to Hugo static sites. This post discussed hosting the site locally in a Docker container web server and exposing ports 80 and 443 to a reverse proxy on my DMZ network. Today, I will show you how you can host your Hugo static site on Cloudflare–FREE. This will absolve your responsibility to host the site, expose ports to the public, and deal with SSL certs. Cloudflare will automatically take care of all of this for you, and Clouflare will even automatically build your site from a Git repo when changes are pushed. ...