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In my homelab, I run all applications in containers via Podman Compose manged though Arcane, and use Caddy’s automatic HTTPS feature.

I made my first post in this blog in October 2015, over 10 years ago!

Towards the end of 2025, I caught the self-hosted homelab bug - starting with an Orange Pi Zero 3 SBC running DietPi, and then adding a Ryzen mini PC for heavier workloads.

It’s been three weeks since I started with Hugo and it’s taken me this long to change my theme, because I engineered one from scratch.

I wanted to use Pagefind with my new Hugo-compiled blog.

Due to issues with updating PHP on my shared hosting which I cannot be bothered to resolve, I am now considering migrating from Grav to Hugo.

Following on from my previous TTS post using Chatterbox Turbo (or any other TTS like Kokoro or Qwen3-TTT), here is code to combine audio files in a single .m4b audiobook retaining author and title metadata, chapter markers, and a cover image.

In my last post, I tried Qwen3-TTS… This time, I test Chatterbox Turbo by Resemble.ai, which is an open-source, MIT licensed, text-to-speech model with zero-shot cloning.

Alibaba’s Qwen3-TTS for Speech Synthesis (text-to-speech) was open-sourced (Apache-2.0) on 22 Jan 2026.

In March 2025, I posted an opinion piece entitled “My Disillusionment with Generative AI”.

The current version of CrossOver 25.1.1 utilizes with Apple’s Game Porting Toolkit 2.1.

In my last post, I described trying out Kokoro text-to-speech (TTS) model via Kokoro-FastAPI web UI in a macOS (native) container.

A short 2-in-1 post of two things I’ve been meaning to try out on macOS - first, to try the new macOS Container framework on macOS 15.5… and second, to spin up Kokoro Text-to-Speech (TTS) in a container.

Onward: How I setup my DietPi SBC as a local music streaming server.

Previously, I documented my Orange Pi Zero 3 setup with DietPi.

I recently wanted to upgrade my Raspberry Pi, and I setted on an Orange Pi Zero 3 Single Board Computer (SBC).