Weeknotes: 2025-W32

Published: 11 August, 2025, updated: 11 August, 2025

Summary

Spent some time installing a bunch of “home lab” software, mostly running on a single NixOS VM on Proxmox VE and using docker compose for the software to run tailscale sidecars to make the software available on my tailnet. Set up Home Assistant (using a HAOS VM, not docker), n8n, Ollama, and more. Started playing around with some automation using Home Assistant.

Set up Sunshine and a Moonlight client to stream games from my PC to my Apple TV, only to discover that Apple TVs will gladly pair with mice, but won’t share any input via their game APIs (and thus, to moonlight). Set up a frankensharing arrangement with my iPad and Apple TV both connected to the PC, and the input going through the iPad, which worked surprisingly well.

Photos

(Based more on time of processing than time of taking…)

Enjoying

• Reading:
  • Wyrd Sisters (Discworld #6) by Terry Pratchett (★★★★☆)
  • The Thursday Murder Club (Thursday Murder Club #1) by Richard Osman
• Watching (📺🏃🐌📅🎥📽️🏠🔄🏁💑👥★☆):
  • 📺🐌💑 The Librarians: The Next Chapter season 1
  • 📺🐌💑 Good Cop/Bad Cop season 1
  • 📺🐌 Murder in a Small Town season 1
  • 📺🏃 The West Wing season 1
• Playing:
  • Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
  • Beat Saber
  • Marvel Strike Force

Newly discovered

Unite

Unite is a WebKit-based wrapper for web applications. I’ve been using Safari’s “Add to Dock” functionality to get some top-level applications for web pages I want to flip between quickly (like Proxmox in my home lab), but these aren’t easily isolated from Safari and each other.

The major downside to Unite is its lack of passkey and extension support - I may end up creating per-site Safari profiles and then using “Add to Dock” for these. This won’t look too good in my Safari profile list, but it will simplify my authentication story.

Dashboard Icons

Dashboard Icons is a collection of icons for various services and applications that might show up somewhere on a home lab or personal dashboard. It was useful to find appropriate icons for some of the apps I used with Unite.

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