Technical writing and projects about homelab infrastructure, self-hosting, automation, cloud, and practical systems work.https://michael-casey.com/https://michael-casey.com/blog/i-wanted-better-wordpress-tools-and-ended-up-replacing-my-whole-site/https://michael-casey.com/blog/i-wanted-better-wordpress-tools-and-ended-up-replacing-my-whole-site/How I tried to improve WordPress content workflows and ended up replacing the whole site with a static Astro stack and private AI-assisted tooling.Fri, 15 May 2026 00:00:00 GMTwordpressastromigrationai-workflowstatic-sitehttps://michael-casey.com/blog/how-i-use-agents-md-for-ai-assisted-homelab-projects/https://michael-casey.com/blog/how-i-use-agents-md-for-ai-assisted-homelab-projects/I've been using tools like ChatGPT Codex, Claude Code, and Cursor for a while now for "vibe coding" some tools on my home server. (I don't think it's technically vibe coding if you know andWed, 06 May 2026 00:00:00 GMTai-codingagents-mdhomelabdeveloper-workflowprompt-engineeringhttps://michael-casey.com/blog/vibe-coding-tip-eliminate-emojis-with-icon-libraries/https://michael-casey.com/blog/vibe-coding-tip-eliminate-emojis-with-icon-libraries/I'm not a huge fan of AI's heavy use of emojis, and I know I'm not the only one. Occasionally I appreciate emojis as a visual cue in a long AI chat, but I've found that coding agents tend toThu, 19 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMTai-codingprompt-engineeringui-designicon-librariesfrontenddeveloper-workflowhttps://michael-casey.com/blog/docker-restart-all-containers-but-faster/https://michael-casey.com/blog/docker-restart-all-containers-but-faster/Whenever I have to restart my docker host, an Ubuntu VM, I always seem to have a few containers that don't start back quite right. I've googled "docker restart all containers" an embarrassinFri, 10 Oct 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://michael-casey.com/blog/how-pi-hole-broke-dns-for-my-other-docker-containers-and-the-quick-fix/https://michael-casey.com/blog/how-pi-hole-broke-dns-for-my-other-docker-containers-and-the-quick-fix/I've used Pi-hole off and on in the past. I really like the idea of it, but it breaks stuff often enough that at times I've turned it back off. I recently added it back to my network as a DoWed, 23 Jul 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://michael-casey.com/blog/tech-podcasts-im-listening-to-in-2025/https://michael-casey.com/blog/tech-podcasts-im-listening-to-in-2025/Here's what I'm following to keep up with the latest tech. Do you have any additional recommendations? Drop a comment below. Tech News Daily Tech News Show - Great for a general tech news ovThu, 10 Jul 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://michael-casey.com/blog/mount-synology-nas-to-raspberry-pi-using-nfs/https://michael-casey.com/blog/mount-synology-nas-to-raspberry-pi-using-nfs/Here's the equipment I used, this should work similarly on other software versions: Synology NAS Running DSM 7.0 Raspberry Pi running Raspbian 10 (Buster) This tutorial is based on these insSun, 09 Jan 2022 00:00:00 GMThttps://michael-casey.com/blog/powershell-terminal-menu-template/https://michael-casey.com/blog/powershell-terminal-menu-template/I created this for part of a bigger project and figured it'd make a good generic template for any PowerShell script needing a basic menu using the up and down arrow keys and enter key to makThu, 04 Jul 2019 00:00:00 GMThttps://michael-casey.com/blog/schedule-windows-notifications-with-powershell/https://michael-casey.com/blog/schedule-windows-notifications-with-powershell/I’ve found too many times that I can sit in front of a computer screen for several hours without taking a break but that later in the day the eye strain catches up with me. I wanted somethinMon, 13 May 2019 00:00:00 GMThttps://michael-casey.com/blog/raspberry-pi-schedule-print-job/https://michael-casey.com/blog/raspberry-pi-schedule-print-job/After having a couple sets of ink cartridges dry up on me after extended non-use, I learned that I'd need to print something regularly to keep my cheap inkjet printer working. After ignoringTue, 19 Feb 2019 00:00:00 GMThttps://michael-casey.com/blog/raspberry-pi-minimal-headless-setup/https://michael-casey.com/blog/raspberry-pi-minimal-headless-setup/For my own quick reference, mostly taken from here : See end of article if SD card was previously used. Download Raspbian from https://www.raspberrypi.org/downloads/raspbian/ Download and inFri, 04 Jan 2019 00:00:00 GMThttps://michael-casey.com/blog/ubuntu-resume-script-in-terminal-after-reboot/https://michael-casey.com/blog/ubuntu-resume-script-in-terminal-after-reboot/I needed to reboot in the middle of my shell script to install Kubernetes / Brigade, and my Googling found several people with similar questions, but no answers that quite worked for me. HerTue, 20 Nov 2018 00:00:00 GMThttps://michael-casey.com/blog/self-elevating-powershell-and-batch-scripts/https://michael-casey.com/blog/self-elevating-powershell-and-batch-scripts/Many scripts require admin permissions, but remembering to right click and select "Run as Administrator" can be a pain. Fortunately, both batch and PowerShell scripts can written so that theWed, 02 May 2018 00:00:00 GMThttps://michael-casey.com/blog/powershell-ping-range-of-ip-addresses/https://michael-casey.com/blog/powershell-ping-range-of-ip-addresses/The other day I needed to scan a small section of our network which uses static IP addresses rather than DHCP to see which assigned IP addresses actually correlated with a working device andFri, 09 Mar 2018 00:00:00 GMThttps://michael-casey.com/blog/domain-user-account-info/https://michael-casey.com/blog/domain-user-account-info/This is a short but incredibly useful command line command I've found for pulling information on domain accounts in an Active Directory environment: [powershell light="true"]net user [usernaWed, 28 Feb 2018 00:00:00 GMThttps://michael-casey.com/blog/powershell-starting-remote-desktop-once-server-available/https://michael-casey.com/blog/powershell-starting-remote-desktop-once-server-available/This is a simple but useful bit of PowerShell. Have you ever been waiting on a server to reboot and ended up pinging it or trying to start a remote desktop session several times before it'sSat, 27 Jan 2018 00:00:00 GMT