Posts tagged with "Homelab"
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Self-Hosting
Published March 24, 2026, 2:52 a.m. by wielandtech
I used to get a steady stream of fake accounts and spam through my sign-up and contact forms. Not a huge volume, but enough to be annoying and make me question my data.
So I added Invisible reCAPTCHA v3. Since then, I haven't had a single fake account.
Why reCAPTCHA v3?
It works differently than the old checkbox version. There's no "I'm not a robot" challenge.
Instead, it gives each request a score based on how human it looks. You decide what score is acceptable and block the rest. Real users never see anything.
How I Implemented It
1. Load the script
``` html
```
2. Attach it to form submission
``` javascript async function getRecaptchaToken(action) { return await grecaptcha.execute("YOUR_SITE_KEY", { action }); }
document.querySelector("#signup-form").addEventListener("submit", async (e) => …
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DevOps
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Homelab
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Observability
Published Jan. 25, 2026, 9:19 a.m. by wielandtech
I've been running a Kubernetes homelab for a while now, and while I've written about the setup before, I recently added something new that I'm pretty excited about: live cluster metrics on the homelab page.
What's New
The homelab page used to be pretty static--just a list of what's running and some hardware specs. Now it shows real-time metrics pulled directly from my cluster. CPU usage, memory, network traffic, disk I/O, temperatures, pod counts, deployment health, and uptime--all updating every second.
It's powered by Netdata agents running on each of my three nodes. I've been using Netdata alongside Prometheus and Grafana for a while, but I never exposed the data publicly before. The API is straightforward, and it gives me exactly what I need without the overhead of querying Prometheus for simple metrics.
The Metrics
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DevOps
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Homelab
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Kubernetes
Published Oct. 20, 2025, 7:03 p.m. by wielandtech
After this morning’s AWS outage, which took down roughly 30% of the global Internet, I wanted to share how I’m keeping my website resilient and independent from the big cloud providers.
What started as a simple need to add a Redis cache to my Django website has turned into a bare-metal, three-node Kubernetes homelab. It now hosts my applications and services securely, efficiently, and completely under my control. The goal is simple: reduce dependence on centralized cloud platforms and take one small step toward democratizing the Internet.
From an Idea to a Self-Hosted Platform
Over the past six months, I’ve been steadily learning and building. The process has involved everything from hardware setup to cluster automation. This past weekend marked a big milestone: I deployed an NGINX reverse proxy on my VPS to forward public …
