Author: Jordan Wang
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HomeLab 101: A Basic Setup
June 10th, 2026 This would probably be my first posting on here that would not be reposted on my FB. When one has a budget contraint that would limit your splurge on more powerful computing hardware, you will have make do with some DIY talent; and with some software integration knowhow, to put it all…
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Vote NO to Add Age-Verification to Software!
FB Posting on Mar 24th 2026 When I read about the news of mandatory age verification laws, such as those emerging in California, Brazil, and the UK, I got all flustered and angry cuz’ that is in my very honest opinion, is certainly posing as a highly significant threat to the open-source software (FOSS) ecosystem…
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IT Audit like it’s 1995
FB Posting on Dec 22nd 2025 Way too hilarious to not share: Auditor: “Where do you store your backup tapes?” Customer: “We’re on AWS. Everything’s replicated across regions.” Auditor: “Yes, but where are the physical tapes?” Customer: “There… aren’t any. It’s the cloud.” Auditor: “So you don’t have backups?” Customer: Shares S3 versioning + AZ…
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Operation Homelab – Status
FB Posting on Aug 8th 2025 Stardate 2025.08.08 – Mission Log: Operation Homelab – Status: Mostly Operational (Don’t Tell My ISP) Alright, folks, buckle up. It’s been a wild ride, fueled by YouTube tutorials, copious amounts of orange juice / soyabean milk (I don’t do caffeine), and a frankly alarming number of trial-and-error installations. Let’s…
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The MCP Concept
FB Posting on Apr 17th 2025 Model Context Protocol (MCP): AI and LLMs have been a buzz word for the past year, nothing more…but now with this MCP, it is open-sourced and recently announced by Anthropic in late November 2024, it gained significant traction and recognition within the AI community in early 2025. This surge…
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“Building a Home Lab: Lessons learned from Experimentation”
FB Posting on Feb 15th 2025 “Building a Home Lab: Lessons Learned from Experimentation” As an IT professional with over four decades of experience navigating the ups and downs of technology, I’ve learned that building a home lab is a journey, not a destination. My own homelab has evolved over time, from its early days…
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The Truth about being Right
FB Posting on Feb 9th 2025 Most people would prefer to be right than to be free… being right is the poor man’s version of his own self-worth. This stings alot if you get it. Don’t let ego get in the way to the truth.
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My Private AI ChatGPT is finally up!
FB Posting on Jan 3rd 2025 Finally… managed to setup a private AI ChatGPT for my own use. It got tricky with the AMD ROCm driver issues with Docker, Ollama and Open WebUI but finally resolved it after a couple of days. Its certainly was not so simple to just google for resolutions, needs some…
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“Software Is Eating The World”
FB Posting dated Nov 24th 2024 It was August 20th, 2011, when Marc Andreessen (Cofounder and General Partner at VC firm Andreessen Horowitz), proclaimed that “Software is eating the world”… Specifically, its ALL of these tech now ie, blockchains, AI, cryptos, Web3, digital assets, etc. The number of use cases for all these is growing…