DevOps on Shadowfish

My Newly Found Love for Grafana: Visualizing My Homelab Metrics

Tue, 21 Jul 2026 10:00:00 +0200

Every homelabber reaches a point where running htop and df -h in a loop simply isn’t enough anymore. When your self-hosted ecosystem grows, having real-time, historical visibility into your hardware becomes a necessity.

This is the story of my newly found love for Grafana and how I set up a robust, visually stunning monitoring stack for my personal homelab repository, night-tower.

Docker Sync: Slash Container Startup Times on macOS

Sat, 21 Nov 2020 12:00:00 +0100

If you are developing inside Docker containers on macOS, you’ve probably faced the dreaded, coffee-break-inducing startup times. Here is how I slashed my container spin-up times from a painful 10 minutes down to just under 4 seconds using Docker Sync.

Strapi in a Container: Setting Up a Headless CMS on Your Lunch Break

Sun, 10 Mar 2019 12:00:00 +0100

Can you spin up a fully functioning headless CMS and configure a database in under an hour? I challenged myself to deploy Strapi.io on my lunch break, and the results were surprisingly smooth.