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Homelab Configuring VLANs on UniFi Switches I’ve worked with Cisco, Arista, and Juniper switches most of my life, but when I first started using UniFi Suresh Vinasiththamby May 17, 2025 7 min read
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Homelab Tailscale VPN - A Network Engineer's Perspective Before we get into what Tailscale is or how it compares to a traditional remote access VPN, let’s take Suresh Vinasiththamby Mar 9, 2025 13 min read
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Palo Alto Trying to Automate Palo Alto Firewall Objects/Rules Cleanup In this blog post, we will walk you through how to clean up Palo Alto Firewall Objects and Rules using Suresh Vinasiththamby Feb 5, 2025 9 min read
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Homelab Paperless-ngx Self-Hosted Document Manager At the moment, most of my documents are stored in Google Drive and locally on my machine. Whenever I need Suresh Vinasiththamby Feb 3, 2025 5 min read
Homelab Setting up Proxmox Backup Server If you follow my blog, you may know that I recently migrated to Proxmox as my hypervisor, and I absolutely Suresh Vinasiththamby Feb 2, 2025 8 min read
Homelab Running Unifi Network Application in Docker As of January 2024, the linuxserver/unifi-controller Docker image has been deprecated and is no longer receiving updates. This means Suresh Vinasiththamby Feb 1, 2025 4 min read
AI Using the Continue VSCode Extension and Local LLMs for Improved Coding Welcome back to another post on local LLMs. In this post, we’ll look at setting up a fully local Suresh Vinasiththamby Jan 30, 2025 4 min read
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AI Running Large Language Models (LLM) on Your Own Machine Using Ollama I’m going to start by saying I’m totally new to LLMs and running them locally, so I’m Suresh Vinasiththamby Jan 30, 2025 7 min read
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