In this blog, I’ve gathered a collection of articles, blogs, and other documentation that provide an in-depth look at the Model Context Protocol basics, including how it functions, its benefits, ar...

Welcome to this quick guide on how to set up Ollama with Nvidia GPU Support on a Ubuntu Server 24.04 virtual machine running in Proxmox. This guide assumes that a virtual machine was freshly create...

Welcome to this quick guide on how to set up GPU passthrough on a server running Proxmox. In my specific case, I used an Nvidia GPU with an Intel CPU; however, this guide should also work for other...

Problem As we all know, there are hardly any APIs that do not use a database to persist their data. ASP.NET makes it easy to connect applications to databases via DbContext, part of Entity Framewo...

As someone who runs their homelab on older, low-power hardware, I constantly wonder if the setup I have is up to the task and can handle some semi-decent workloads if I ever need to expand the circ...

In light of the recent news of native UUID v7 GUID support coming to .NET 9, I have been deep-diving into UUID specification, as well as the pros and cons of using UUID v7 as database table primary...

Well, as someone who chose a Raspberry Pi 4 as their first homelab server machine, it did not take a lot of time for me to feel limited in what I could do in terms of self-hosting and experimenting...

In this blog I composed a set of useful tips, samples and materials on how to create, test, use and publish (Nuget.org) your own custom .NET project templates. If you are looking for a recent examp...

Welcome to this blog where I would like to share a custom .NET project template I implemented and published recently. Hopefully, you will find it useful. While conducting dozens of hours of presen...

Welcome to this blog on how I chose SSD drives for my Raspberry Pi 4 Homelab micro server. This process turned out to be more tricky than originally expected, including finding the information to b...