Welcome to notestack.dev 👋

This site was born out of a simple habit… taking notes while building, breaking, fixing, and rebuilding my homelab and home IoT. Over time, those notes started to look more like step-by-step guides so I decided to organize them and make them public.

I work as a Cloud Operations Engineer, with a background in telecommunications and cloud infrastructure. At home, my homelab is where I experiment, learn, and validate ideas. If something here exists, it’s because I needed it, tested it, or broke it at least once.

The goal of this site is straightforward:

• Document how to install, configure, and run the tools I actually use.
• Keep notes practical, reproducible, and opinionated (when needed).
• Serve as both my personal knowledge base and a reference for others on a similar path.

If you find something useful here, great! That’s exactly the point.

The Homelab

Below is a snapshot of my current homelab and some of the hardware behind it:

Hardware Overview

My homelab lives in a DeskPi RackMate T1, it is compact, clean, and efficient. - Check on Amazon

Front of the Rack

• DeskPi 7.84” Touch Screen (1280×400 TFT LCD) - Check on Amazon
• MokerLink POE-G083GS Switch - Check on Amazon
  • RJ45 Dust Covers - Check on Amazon
• DeskPi RackMate 12-Port Patch Panel - Check on Amazon
• DeskPi RackMate 10” 2U Venting Blank Panel - Check on Amazon
• 3D Printed Dual Raspberry Pi Rackmount - Check on Printables
  • Raspberry Pi 5 - Check on Amazon
  • GeeekPi P31 M.2 NVMe M-Key PoE+ HAT - Check on Amazon
  • Kingspec 256GB M.2 2230 SSD
• 3D Printed 8th Gen Intel NUC Rackmount - Check on Printables
  • Intel NUC NUC8I3BEH2 - Check Specs
• Keystone Modules (USB-C, HDMI and Blanks) - Check on Amazon
• Custom-made Ethernet Cables

Back of the Rack

• HMF Patch Panel - Check on Amazon
• 3D Printed Cable Tie-Down Points (x4) - Check on Printables
• DeskPi RackMate Blank Panels (x3) - Check on Amazon
• DIGITUS 4-Way Power Strip - Check on Amazon
• DeskPi RackMate USB 5V Cooling Fan - Check on Amazon
  
  

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  I only link to hardware I actually use in my rack.