Hey, I'm Pepper
IT technician by day, homelab tinkerer by night.
Welcome to Pepper's Lab — a space where I document my journey through self-hosting, networking, and everything homelab. I'm an IT professional with a passion for building and breaking things in my spare time, then writing about how to fix them.
What You'll Find Here
- Homelab Guides — From bare-metal Proxmox setups to containerised services
- Networking Deep-Dives — VLANs, DNS, VPNs, and split-tunnel configs
- Self-Hosted Apps — Jellyfin, Pi-hole, Authelia, and more
- Troubleshooting Logs — Real problems, real fixes, no fluff
The Stack
This blog itself is built with FastAPI and Jinja2, styled with vanilla CSS, and served from my homelab. No frameworks, no bloat — just clean, fast pages.
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