Welcome to The Moo Log

James

08 Mar 2026

This is where I document my homelab adventures - from Proxmox clusters and LXC containers to reverse proxies and automation pipelines. If it runs on a server rack at home, it probably belongs here.

What to expect

Posts here will cover the real stuff - the configs that worked, the ones that didn't, and the late-night debugging sessions that somehow fixed everything. Topics include:

Infrastructure - Proxmox, LXCs, networking, firewalls
- Automation - Ansible playbooks, scripts, and CI/CD
- Self-hosted services - Media stacks, monitoring, DNS, and more
- Lessons learned - Because every homelab has its war stories

Stay tuned for the first real post. Until then, the servers are humming and the logs are clean.

Every Petrol Station in Britain, Updated Every Four Hours

The UK government quietly runs one of the most useful APIs nobody talks about. Every petrol station in the country reports its prices to the GOV.UK Fuel Finder, and they expose all of it through a public REST API. Around 7,400 stations, updated within 30 minutes of price

Teaching My CLI to Blog For Me

There's a particular kind of laziness that loops back around to being productive. It's the kind where you spend three hours automating a task that takes five minutes, then feel like a genius every time those five minutes happen without you. This is a story about

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Every Petrol Station in Britain, Updated Every Four Hours

Teaching My CLI to Blog For Me