About
De Nobis
A dark room, a rack that never sleeps, and everything that happens in it written down where you can read it.
The Homelab Files Blog covers the text based content for the channel. In many cases it will stand on its own, but at times will reach back to video content from our YouTube Channel. I'm hopeful much of the content will be worth watching to you. An automation or build, a debrief on an architecture and why, conversations with industry peers.
As per the Blog, some things just read better. An editorial or an opinion piece on some recent news or event, a follow-up to a discussion, a whitepaper that I, or perhaps with a colleague, am working on or have produced. Video can be a poor container for such material. You cannot skim it, you cannot copy a line out of it, and you cannot search it eighteen months later with ease (although AI is indeed changing this). So the written side goes here.
This gives the project three places to live. YouTube, where you need to watch a thing happen or enjoy a long-form conversation. Code, scripts and similar assets on GitHub. Lastly, this blog for the material that does not fit either: written posts that never needed a video, and companion notes for the videos that did, and more.
Who this is for
Frankly anyone interested! That said, it is likely to be quite technical in its content at times, so some level of understanding is expected. For example, if I'm referencing Docker containers, I'm not going to author much text about what they are ... I'm likely to go right into the strategic and tactical elements of what I'm trying to convey, or show how I execute.
What I will do is take feedback seriously and make an honest effort to adopt some compromise as needed for the audience, which is likely to shape how things are posted, albeit more so on GitHub than this blog.
How this will go
I would rather publish something that took a week to get right than keep a schedule for its own sake. If that means two posts this month and none the next because work moves to video production, so be it.
I will also correct things. If a post turns out to be wrong, or a step stops working because the project changed underneath it, I would rather update the post and say so at the bottom than leave a broken recipe sitting here looking authoritative.
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The important part
Enjoy the YouTube videos, the Blog posts, the GitHub repo, and our shared journey! ...but more importantly enjoy life. Step away from the keyboard more often. Play Frisbee with your dog, take your kid out for a malted. Hug your husband or wife and take them out for lunch. I fell in love with these devices decades ago ... and if I've learned anything it is that stepping away from them from time to time has allowed me to continue loving them.
Pull up a chair. The rack's humming.