Introduction
Starting 2026, I decided to build my own home lab 🏡 🖥️ — running storage, sync, and a personal blog from home hardware. Skills from SAP (infra, deployments, CI/CD) made it actually feasible, and 2026 being the year of AI-assisted dev made it even more fun to build.
Table of Contents
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Why I Built an AI-native Home Lab — Why I chose to build a home lab over using cloud services
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Core Architecture — How everything in the home lab connects — hardware, networking, and services
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Obsidian Vault, Meet Telegram — Claude in Docker, editing the vault via Telegram from anywhere
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Automating My Notes — How Claude keeps the vault organised automatically — skills, hooks, and the weekly review
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Introducing OpenViking — A Hermes-compatible context database with three-layer retrieval and progressive token loading