Homelab Club Blog

WinLocalLogon
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... Read more...
πŸš€ COMING SOON: Taking Your Homelab to the Next Level
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,... 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...