Lab Notes
This section of the Fastigiata vault extends beyond the core knowledge pillars above — it’s where hands-on lab notes, experiments, and technical records from the Homelab will live as they’re documented. Where the pillar notes describe concepts and tools in general terms, this index tracks the actual work: what was tried, what worked, what didn’t, and what was learned along the way.
Index
| Date | Note | Category | Summary |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9th Aug 2026 | Raspberry Pi- Network Monitor | Linux | Setting up Uptime Kuma in a docker container to monitor homelab network activity via the Raspberry Pi node. |
| 20th Aug 2026 | Kernel Panic Recovery | Linux | The broadcom-sta-dkms package fails to compile on Linux Kernel 7.0 due to API changes, causing broken package configurations or kernel panics. |
| 22nd Aug 2026 | KVM Virtualisation Conflict | Cybersecurity | Open WebUI was tied into a Docker setup that relied on KVM, while the Kali VM was being run through VirtualBox. KVM and VirtualBox both wanted access to the machine’s hardware virtualisation features. |
| 26th Aug 2026 | Stale Credential | Cybersecurity | A security check of a decommissioned and thought to be hardened ex-home server found to have a vulnerability worth documenting. |
| 3rd Sep 2026 | Raspberry Pi- Temperature Monitor | Linux | SSH connection to the Raspberry pi used to configure CLI tools and run simple temperature testing before and after set CPU activity. |
| 3rd Sep 2026 | Docker, Dozzle, Dashy & Iperf | Linux | Leveraging Docker service running on the Raspberry Pi objective was to create web based observability dashboards to compliment Uptime Kuma |
| 4th Sept 2026 | Quartz typescript error | Quartz | While reviewing the Quartz project configuration, VS Code showed a TypeScript deprecation warning for: |
Position in this vault
Not every experiment or putting it another way every time I mess up and break something is worth documenting. But documentation cements learning, that is for certain. This vault is built to hold a running log of experiments across the homelab as I learn new skills. Currently the focus has been around local AI configuration and testing, cybersecurity exercises, networking and container work, and anything else that comes out of active tinkering.