Homelab notes

I write at the intersection of networking, automation, data engineering and infrastructure as code. Ideas for my posts come from my homelab and the servers I run, along with the configurations I build.

This site is entirely built and hosted on my own infrastructure. It’s built using Hugo (a fast and minimal static site generator written in Go), packaged with Nix, and declaratively deployed on a NixOS server I control. Source code for the site is Open Source, and published here on my public git repository.

Last build: 12 Aug 2026

Latest Posts

Building a Router on a Mini-PC With NixOS

Replacing a Mikrotik router with a Protectli mini-PC running NixOS — covering PPPoE, VLAN segmentation, link aggregation, nftables, Kea DHCP, and Blocky DNS. (15 min read)

Sam Chance
August 12, 2025

GIS PostGIS Database OSM

Customizing OSM Data Loading with Lua Scripts in Osm2pgsql

Here we discuss using Lua scripts to customise tables imported using osm2pgsql (11 min read)

Sam Chance
June 26, 2025

QGIS PostGIS Database Raster

Import Global SRTM Elevation Data Into Postgres Database Using PostGIS

This article explains how to batch import rasters into a Postgres database. It also covers the use of PostGIS functions to query these rasters and create new ones. These techniques are particularly useful for applications such as QGIS. (8 min read)

Sam Chance
August 6, 2024

Linux Arch

Artix Linux Installation Guide

This guide will run through the process of installing Artix Linux with runit as the init system on an encrypted disk partition. (6 min read)

Sam Chance
February 24, 2024