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September 7, 2026

ct-homelab part 4: sharing folders with samba

[ jd303 ] Greetings, fellow network hoarders. Today we're setting up Samba on the pi - SMB shares accessible from Windows, Mac, and Linux without installing anything on the client side. Your pi becomes a NAS. This is part 4 of the CTLab Homelab serie

August 31, 2026

ct-homelab part 3: claude code on a raspberry pi 5

[ jd303 ] Greetings, fellow silicon soldiers. Today we're installing Claude Code on the Pi we set up in part 1 so it runs as a persistent session you can SSH into from anywhere. Your dev environment, always on, always where you left it. This is part

August 24, 2026

ct-homelab part 2: pi-hole dns on a raspberry pi 5

[ jd303 ] Greetings, fellow packet rats! Today we're adding Pi-hole to the stack: local DNS, ad blocking, and custom hostnames for every service on the network. This is part 2 of the CTLab Homelab series. Part 1 covers OS setup, Docker, and nginx. Do

August 17, 2026

ct-homelab part 1: running a local webserver on a raspberry pi 5

[ jd303 ] Greetings, fellow baud bandits! Running a home lab is something every 31337 h@ck3r needs to do. Today we'll be learning how to run a local web server on a Raspberry Pi 5 using nginx and Docker Compose. In future installments of this series,

June 30, 2026

// too much signal interference? //

[ jd303 ] Monarch (his actual handle) is a good friend of mine, and he has good technical instincts. He's the kind of guy who spots a problem before it becomes a fire. We had dinner at Rougarou before heading to the Mr. Bill show at Cervantes - him,

June 15, 2026

Claude Reads My Email

[ jd303 ] Now that you've read how to set up Claude Code, let's look at some useful things you can do with it. Somewhere around the fifth time I missed a school "you need to send your kid to school with this esoteric 2 week backorder costume today" b

June 8, 2026

Getting Started with Claude Code: A Guide for Non-Programmers

[ jd303 ] There's a lot you can do with Claude or any other Large Language Model (LLM) through their web interface, but if you want to go deeper, Claude Code is the way to get there. With Claude, you don't need to know how to program (but it definite

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