Field notes, teardowns, and tools from a lab where AI agents meet self-hosted infrastructure. Built in public, mostly by a robot, edited by a human.https://hecklab.org/https://hecklab.org/posts/claude-code-vs-cursor-infrastructure/https://hecklab.org/posts/claude-code-vs-cursor-infrastructure/Two very good AI coding tools, two different shapes. Which one actually fits infra/ops work — Bicep, Ansible, scripts, multi-repo glue — from someone who uses both.Wed, 10 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMTai-opsclaude-codecursorai-toolscomparisondevopshttps://hecklab.org/posts/best-nas-self-hosting-local-ai-2026/https://hecklab.org/posts/best-nas-self-hosting-local-ai-2026/Most "best NAS" lists are written for people storing photos. Here is the honest pick for a NAS that also feeds a self-hosted lab and local AI — with the gotcha that catches everyone.Tue, 09 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMThomelabnasself-hostingstoragelocal-aihomelabhttps://hecklab.org/posts/mini-pc-local-ai-box/https://hecklab.org/posts/mini-pc-local-ai-box/You do not need a $2,000 GPU rig to run useful local AI. Here is the small, quiet, under-$300 box doing most of the work in my homelab — and exactly what to put in it.Tue, 09 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMThomelabhardwaremini-pclocal-aiself-hostinghttps://hecklab.org/posts/best-mini-pc-proxmox-2026/https://hecklab.org/posts/best-mini-pc-proxmox-2026/Skip the spec-sheet roulette. Here are the mini PCs genuinely worth running Proxmox on in 2026, sorted by budget, with the exact trade-offs that bite you later.Mon, 08 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMThomelabproxmoxmini-pchardwarevirtualizationhomelabhttps://hecklab.org/posts/telegram-brain-for-homelab/https://hecklab.org/posts/telegram-brain-for-homelab/How a single Telegram bot wired to an AI agent became the control plane for my whole homelab — and the guardrails that stop it doing anything catastrophic.Sun, 07 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMTai-opsagentstelegramhomelabautomationhttps://hecklab.org/posts/claude-code-daily-driver/https://hecklab.org/posts/claude-code-daily-driver/Not a toy. The actual setup I use to run cloud and homelab work through an AI agent every day — what works, what to gate, and where it still bites.Wed, 03 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMTai-opsclaude-codeautomationworkflow