hey there I'm Nelson gasy the social
engineer today I'm going to be talking
to you about just a few of the reasons
why I've chosen home labbing as one of
my Main
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Hobbies home labbing is a pretty new
term but it really precisely describes
what I want to talk about today which is
basically running computers and servers
inside of your house so you're doing
things on Prem if you're in the
corporate world but you're really just
doing it at your house
I've been a bit of a fanboy of Synology
for the past 10 years or so and I really
like to enjoy running a lot of stuff on
my sonology network attached storage as
well as a whole bunch of different
raspberry pies I even have one sitting
on my desk here which shows me how my
ethereum validator is doing I have one
downstairs that runs an nft display I
have a monitor that I have nfts on that
kind of go through a Carousel and they
switch up every few seconds so that's
kind of another thing that that I I kind
of enjoy I have a Raspberry Pi running
my one of my 3D printers the prussa is
actually run using a thing called
octoprint which I can control from my
phone or any of my computers in my house
I can have a webcam hooked up to it I
can start and stop it I got relays you
can turn the power on and off these are
the kind of things that home labing
allows you to do I'm also running open
sense which is the thing that runs my
routing for my internet into my house so
I have the National Broadband coming in
and then I have open sens wizzes at the
outside and then I have a manage switch
with a whole bunch of separate VLS to
try to have a bit of security inside my
network and then a couple more raspberry
pies doing little odds and ends and all
up I think about 25 or 30 Docker
containers I haven't really gotten into
going into something fancier like
kubernetes or anable just because this
is something that I know how to control
myself I know how to manage it I know
how to do updates I've been a big fan of
Docker compose for the last few years
just because of you can really quite
easily move between machines you take
that composed file and if you've been
putting your file structure correct you
just take whatever files were generated
move it to a new machine it's one of the
things that I really like especially
when you have RAs spray pies because
they do tend to fail if you're running
them 247 just because SD cards aren't
really supposed to be run 24/7 that's
it's not really how this works so it's
it's quite fun to kind of manage all
these things and I've also started to
take some of these things to work where
I'm now responsible for a lot of stuff
very similar to what I'm doing at home
at work so I guess maybe I'm taking my
home to work not my work to home so it's
kind of something where my passions do
quite align with my role and it's
something that I wish more people had
with their jobs and maybe this is
something that I've curated using my
skills that I've been working on so my
emotional intelligence and my social
intelligence where I kind of have been
able to move myself
towards having the opportunity to use
some of these skills at work and then
also getting a bit of credit for doing
stuff that this is like well out of my
lane at work so it's kind of getting
some credit where it's it's like okay
cool we would have had to hire another
person or get someone and do that but
you're able to do it and that's
something that you know will help when
it comes discussions for raises and
things if you're interested in this home
lab stuff stay with me and subscribe to
my channel CU I will be putting out more
content about all the little Raspberry
Pi things and how I had my network set
up why I have it set up this way how I
got into building computers and all that
fun stuff if you're interested in
learning more about what I've coined the
engineers trilemma which is emotional
intelligence intelligence and social
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yeah