A prison of my own making
A prison of my own making 2025-06-30 – Killing the joy of homelabbing with my own expectation Yesterday I realized something: I’ve built myself into a prison and didn’t realize it. Let me explain: Working on tech projects has always been something relaxing for me. If I was stressed about something, I could always turn to my homelab as a source of calm and it would usually provide exactly the balance that I needed to keep going. But recently I found this not to be the case anymore. I would turn to a project and just stare at the screen. I was thinking of all of the things I would need to do to set something new up and I felt overwhelmed. I was overwhelmed by all of the things that I convinced myself to be necessary. Everything needs to be declarative Machines as cattle, not pets…
