Why I Built This Lab
Why I Made This Blog I got tired of just watching tutorials thinking I was learning. I wanted hands-on, friction, and failure to happen that way I could learn by fixing. So I decided to stop con...
Tylor Romine
Deploying pfSense on a Protectli Firewall in My Homelab
Why I Added pfSense to My Lab I had previously installed OPNSense on my Unraid server but it was conflicing with a lot of the network so I bought a Protectli Vault to have more segmentation on my ...
Building a Grafana + Prometheus Monitoring Stack in My Unraid Homelab
Note: This setup was originally built on Unraid, I’ve since migrated my homelab to Proxmox, but the concepts still apply. I wanted better visibility into my homelab. I already had a growing Unra...
Self-Hosting Immich on Unraid (My Google Photos Replacement)
Note: This setup was originally built on Unraid, I’ve since migrated my homelab to Proxmox, but the concepts still apply. I wanted to move away from Google Photos and start hosting my own photo b...
Adding an OPNsense Firewall to My Homelab (and Sending Logs to Wazuh)
Note: This setup was originally built on Unraid, I’ve since migrated my homelab to Proxmox, but the concepts still apply. Why I Added a Firewall to My Homelab My homelab had already grown into a...
Implementing a Self-Hosted Umami Analytics Dashboard with Cloudflare Zero Trust
I wanted real analytics for my blog - but I didn’t want Google tracking my visitors. So I deployed Umami analytics in my homelab and protected the dashboard using Cloudflare Zero Trust. It wo...
Threat Detection with Wazuh + Sysmon: Simulating Attacks in My Homelab
If you want to see how this lab was built, check out my previous posts on deploying Wazuh and adding Sysmon telemetry to my Windows lab machines. Wazuh Homelab Rasp Pi 4 Enhanci...
When My External Hard Drive Corrupted… So I Did Some Digital Forensics
The Problem Recently one of my external hard drives decided to betray me. The drive had a huge collection of books on it that my wife had been storing. When I plugged it into my PC… everything wa...
Partition Recovery with Autopsy + FTK Imager (Deleted Partition Analysis)
Partition Recovery with Autopsy + FTK Imager This lab focused on recovering a deleted partition from an E01 forensic image and validating everything properly. Instead of just carving files, the g...
Detecting IMSI Catchers with Rayhunter
Detecting Cell-Site Simulators with Rayhunter This afternoon my Orbic mobile hotspot showed up, and I decided to immediately try something I had been wanting to experiment with - installing Rayhun...