Thomas Schwery

Field notes since 2010

Notes from a homelab, a workshop, and a lot of tinkering.

I’m Thomas, a software engineer in Switzerland. When a project takes me a few weekends to figure out, like a WireGuard hub, a Talos cluster or a laser-cut panorama, I write it up here.

Skyline from Bellalui, traced by Panowood

Recent writing

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DNS as Code with DNSControl

5 min readhomelab

How the zones for inf3.ch, inf3.xyz and schwery.me are declared with DNSControl, kept in Git and deployed to Route53 on merge.

A Home Lab on Talos and ArgoCD

7 min readhomelab

Nine years after the first cluster, the home lab runs on Talos Linux, everything above the nodes is deployed by ArgoCD, and storage comes from TrueNAS.

A WireGuard Hub with Ansible

11 min readhomelab

All my sites dial out to a small public server acting as a WireGuard hub, with frp for public ingress. This is how its Ansible repository is organised.

Photogrammetry and custom bow grip

11 min readmaking

Scanning the bow grip we customised at the club with only a camera, rebuilding it with photogrammetry, and 3D printing improved versions.

Archive

29 posts since 2010

2026

  1. DNS as Code with DNSControl homelab
  2. A Home Lab on Talos and ArgoCD homelab
  3. A WireGuard Hub with Ansible homelab

2020

  1. Photogrammetry and custom bow grip making

2019

  1. Backup archives migration to Borg homelab
  2. Automatic deployment on AWS S3 and/or FTP homelab
  3. GitLab runners on Hetzner Cloud homelab
  4. KiCad compilation through Docker making
  5. My Git workflow linux
  6. OpenGL in a virtual machine linux
  7. SSH access through Tor Hidden Service homelab

2017

  1. Kubernetes Persistent Volumes and RBD homelab
  2. OpenFaaS and Kubernetes homelab
  3. Ubiquiti Unifi at home homelab
  4. Subversion migration to Git linux
  5. Network Debian Install linux
  6. Preseeded Debian Install linux
  7. Migration to Hugo meta

2016

  1. Debian Preseeded install medium linux
  2. Anlyea Quadcopter - Design phase making

2012

  1. Now with OwnCloud homelab

2010

  1. My blog now supports Gopher meta
  2. How to disable Num_Lock linux
  3. Mercurial Repositories linux
  4. xRandr and dual screen linux
  5. How to modify the CPU voltage linux
  6. Pretty boot output linux
  7. What's this blog ? meta
  8. First Post meta