iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

I created #sendcutsend parts so that you can rack and stack consumer grade hardware ( #MiniPC, #raspberypi, etc). I have open sourced them at codeberg.org/invirtuate/m... I put some blog posts together also: invirtuate.com/blog#_mountlet #Technology #Minnesota #selfhosted #homelab

Mountlet 6U server rack with 2U ATX chassis and 1U MiniPC chassis

3 Raspberry Pis in a Mountlet 1U Chassis.

Mountlet 24U server rack with MiniPCs, Raspberry Pis, and ATX motherboards.

010

Invirtuate @invirtuate.com · 08/10/2026

It takes about 13.280s to update invirtuate.com (frontend content, static content, etc). Video speaks for itself yea? #homelab #selfhosted #technology #webdev #website #terraform

050

Invirtuate @invirtuate.com · 06/10/2026

Had to add a hack to fix a connection leak with a service somewhere (I dont know where it is... yet). How I feel about the interim hack is picrel

000

Invirtuate @invirtuate.com · 02/10/2026

Looks like #github is down yet again.

000

Invirtuate @invirtuate.com · 29/09/2026

I was able to finally automate #freebsd in my #homelab . Not as easy to provision images as #arch #debian or #ubuntu but it may be more rewarding?

030

Invirtuate @invirtuate.com · 29/09/2026

It took me 3hrs to move one of my hypervisors to #debian . Most of this time was spent backing up the volumes and restoring them. The nice thing is, the setup of guestlet was quick, easy and (appears to be) bug free moving between distros. #selfhosted #homelab

system metadata showing debian 13 and kernel version

020

Invirtuate @invirtuate.com · 21/09/2026

You really should be using token bucket for rate limiting on your API or web app. #golang #backend #webapp

020

Invirtuate @invirtuate.com · 19/09/2026

@fancifulrealities.com site has had a burst in traffic the past 24hrs. Decided to do a go pprof CPU profile because I was curious where the webapp spent all its compute cycles. Did not expect it to be in metrics collection and reporting. #golang #technology #web #selfhosting

000

Invirtuate @invirtuate.com · 14/09/2026

As an #indiedev this is my #jira epic + issues :) I dont care if you dont like it, it's engineering in its purest form: problem + solution Yes I track in version control, etc. Is it crazy? Probably, but jira is crazier.

052

Invirtuate @invirtuate.com · 13/09/2026

When you collect #metrics and have #observability for your data, patterns become more obvious.

000

Invirtuate @invirtuate.com · 11/09/2026

I auto-patch my hypervisor nodes in my #homelab nightly (they do reboots if necessary). No warning occurs, they simply patch, gracefully shutdown all VMs, then reboot. My biggest indicator of patching are picrel. Crazy? Nah, this is how I pursue perfection. #selfhosted #ubuntu #technology

011

Invirtuate @invirtuate.com · 10/09/2026

I mostly wrapped up my #rbac implementation today. After reading through the #owasp recommendations for building rbac I can proudly say that the implementation is about what, 10 LOC? You be the judge, I cant count. What you don't see is the map that is 500+ LOC that makes it all work. #golang

000

Invirtuate @invirtuate.com · 08/09/2026

I also decided to do TCP connect times (yes I know DNS is UDP < 512 bytes). Past 3 hours of TCP connect times are below. You could extrapolate that #quad9 DNS resolvers are one resolver (same system, different IPs). But it's pretty obvious that #google DNS is separate.

110

Invirtuate @invirtuate.com · 08/09/2026

What do you mean by "puts 8.8.8.8 first?". All these resolvers get pinged individually in their own concurrent process. I decided to test them all individually starting yesterday, here is the past 3 hours of data. As you can see #quad9 is still superior to #google and #cloudflare.

quad9, google, cloudflare dns icmp response times.

010

Invirtuate @invirtuate.com · 06/09/2026

I switched to #quad9 from #cloudflare the other day. My completely and scientific assessment of performance can be seen in picrel. quad9 (orange) responds in ~10ms, cloudflare in ~19ms (green), #google in ~22ms (blue). Yellow is my upstream ISP (3-5ms). If you care about milliseconds use quad9?

dns resolution times between quad9, cloudflare, and google

120

Invirtuate @invirtuate.com · 01/09/2026

You're one with your project when the CPU profile confirms your suspicions. #golang #coding #programming

000

Invirtuate @invirtuate.com · 30/08/2026

Over the weekend, I added ACLs to the API for guestlet. If there are no ACLs it's default deny. It also supports explicit deny/allow by CIDR. Auth can be validated in about ~20ms. ACL modification and auth to the API is also logged to the account. #homelab #selfhosted #technology #cybersecurity

010

Invirtuate @invirtuate.com · 27/08/2026

This refactor (over the past 2 weeks) looks insignificant when reduced to a git diff :( #git #refactoring #coding #backend #programming

000

Invirtuate @invirtuate.com · 27/08/2026

Just upgraded qemu from v10.2.4 to v11.0.3 on all my hypervisor nodes in my private cloud and it seems to went flawlessly. #selfhosted #homelab #qemu #linux #virtualization

qemu version metadata query for hypervisor nodes

020

Invirtuate @invirtuate.com · 11/08/2026

I finally have the Invirtuate tofu/terraform provider mostly complete in my homelab. I need to add more update functionality for resources, but create, destroy, read, state import, and data sources all work now. #technology #terraform #tofu #automation #homelab #selfhosted #devops

030

Invirtuate @invirtuate.com · 01/08/2026

Started working on my own #terraform provider for my private cloud. Managed to get SSH key create/delete working. Now, I should be able to rapidly finish this provider over the next week. #automation #technology #tech #programming #homelab #selfhosted

040

Invirtuate @invirtuate.com · 27/07/2026

Me and @fancifulrealities.bsky.social worked all day yesterday fixing bugs for a new form service so that she can #degoogle . It's not ready for outside use yet, but a new form service is a piece that allows for dropping #bigtech. Some pics below. #technology #privacy #selfhosted #coding #NoAI

010

Invirtuate @invirtuate.com · 25/07/2026

I estimated that the refactor I was working on would delete ~20k LOC, looks like I was wrong, 30k LOC deleted. Context: I had duplicate code that was doing same thing for 6 similar but different services. So, I refactored under a single unified API. #golang #coding #technology #tech #programming

010

Invirtuate @invirtuate.com · 03/06/2026

I took the VM from the most recent #incident and turned all the attackers data into a HIDS like tool to export metrics based on #security events to #prometheus . +9k LOC #infosec #cybersecurity #golang #coding #programming

020