Homelab Club Blog

Homelab Club Community
|Kevin Villarreal
Welcome to the Homelab Club Community A homelab is more than a collection of servers, virtual machines, network equipment, and cables. It is a place to learn. A place to experiment. A place where you can break things without worrying about bringing down a production environment, and then figure out how to fix them. Most importantly, it is a place where curiosity turns into real-world skills. Welcome to the Homelab Club The Homelab Club is a community for people who enjoy learning, experimenting, building, and exploring technology from their own... Read more...
WinLocalLogon
|Kevin Villarreal
One of the things I enjoy most about the homelab community is discovering small projects that solve real problems. This week I came across WinLocalLogon, a simple but incredibly useful batch script created by a Homelab Club community member, my tech inspirator, and friend of mine, Frank Bastiaens. If you've ever installed Windows 11 for a new homelab project, you've probably run into Microsoft's forced online sign-in experience. When you're building a lab, testing virtual machines, or creating disposable environments, you often don't want to connect a Microsoft account. You... Read more...
πŸš€ COMING SOON: Taking Your Homelab to the Next Level
|Kevin Villarreal
After the incredible response to Getting Started with Your First Homelab, I'm excited to announce that my second book is almost here!Taking Your Homelab to the Next Level: Advanced Projects, Automation, and Real-World Skills for Home IT LabsThis book is designed for homelab enthusiasts, IT professionals, and technology learners who want to go beyond the basics and build practical, real-world skills through hands-on projects.Inside you'll learn how to:- Build a modern Proxmox environment- Use Windows 11 as a powerful homelab tool- Deploy self-hosted services using LXC containers- Build smart home... Read more...
Type 'ls' wrong on Linux. Watch what happens
|Kevin Villarreal
πŸš‚ Type 'ls' wrong on Linux and a steam locomotive drives across your screen.No, really....Meet sl, one of the greatest typo punishments ever written.𝗧𝗡𝗲 π˜€π˜π—Όπ—Ώπ˜† 𝗯𝗲𝗡𝗢𝗻𝗱 π—Άπ˜Back in the early 1990s, a Japanese programmer named Toyoda Masashi got tired of mistyping ls (the command to list files) as sl and getting a boring "command not found" error.So he did what any reasonable developer would do: he wrote a program that punishes you for the mistake in the most delightful way possible.Type sl by accident? A full ASCII steam locomotive comes... Read more...
The Homelab Club Drive
|Kevin Villarreal
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Official Homelab Club Book!!
|Kevin Villarreal
Introducing the first official Homelab Club book!Getting Started With Your First Homelab,Β The very first book from Homelab Club.πŸ‘‰ https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0FTVYXLP3Β πŸ‘ˆ This guide was created for IT enthusiasts, students, and professionals who want to build practical hands-on experience outside of production environments. A homelab is one of the most effective ways to learn real infrastructure skills safely and at your own pace. This book helps you get started the right way.Inside the book, you’ll learn:β€’ What a homelab is and why it matters for your IT growth.β€’ How to choose the right... Read more...
What Can You Do With A Homelab?
|Kevin Villarreal
Every single thing on this infographic? I've run it. I'm still running it. πŸ–₯️My homelab started as curiosity. A spare machine, a Linux ISO, and way too many late nights. Over time it grew into something I didn't expect: a career accelerator.Learning networking concepts hands-on, tinkering with Docker and self-hosted apps gave me real-world experience. Running a local LLM taught me more about AI infrastructure than any course could. And my NAS? It's been quietly backing up my family's data for years without missing a beat.A homelab doesn't have to... Read more...