Erik Thorsell

Today, git pull stopped working on my main laptop.

This is a follow-up post to my State of the Homelab 2026 (Servers Edition)-post, which talks about my storage / compute philosophy, how my server game has evolved over the years as well as what hardware I use as of January 2026.

This post is long overdue, but I’m planning some upgrades for 2026 so I figured I’d document the setup that has been serving me very well for the past 5 years.

Kubernetes is a point of contention.

Product Owner: Hey, how long do you believe Feature F will take?

This is a writeup for CERT-SE’s CTF from 2025.

Almost 2 000 comics (and over 12 years) ago1, Randall Munroe created the XKCD Comic Is it worth the time?

This is mostly a quick note to myself, for future reference.

Ever since I got my own place I have been hosting my own VPN.

I made an attempt to get as many flags I could in one day because that’s the amount of time I could set aside for this.