Welcome to Brian’s Tech Corner
What this blog is about and what you can expect going forward
This site is brand new and will evolve over time — thanks for being here early.
👋 Welcome
Welcome to Brian’s Tech Corner.
This blog is a place where I’ll be documenting things I’m building, experimenting with, and learning about — mostly driven by curiosity and hands-on tinkering.
The focus here is on practical setups, real configurations, and ideas that you can adapt for your own projects.
🧠 What You’ll Find Here
Topics you’ll see on this site include:
- Homelabs and home networking
- Kubernetes and GitOps-style setups
- Cloud infrastructure experiments
- Home automation (Home Assistant, UniFi, IoT)
- Backend and automation projects (primarily Python)
Most posts will be written from the perspective of building things from scratch, figuring out what works, and refining setups over time.
🛠 How This Content Is Approached
This blog isn’t meant to be overly theoretical or abstract.
Instead, you’ll find:
- Step-by-step walkthroughs
- Configuration examples
- Diagrams and architecture explanations
- Notes on what worked, what didn’t, and why
The goal is to make things understandable, repeatable, and useful.
🚀 Why This Blog Exists
I’ve always enjoyed breaking down systems, automating repetitive tasks, and building environments that are easy to reason about.
Related Posts
Kubernetes Logging with Loki
Collect, store, and query Kubernetes logs using Loki with MinIO object storage and Grafana.
Homelab Alerting with Alertmanager and Free Discord Integration
How to set up free, reliable alerting for your homelab using Prometheus Alertmanager and Discord webhooks.
Monitoring My Homelab with Grafana: From Proxmox to Kubernetes
A practical, beginner-friendly observability setup for a two-host Proxmox homelab: Prometheus + Grafana in Kubernetes, scraping Proxmox hosts and Pi-hole.