Jokes aside, I do keep some harder to remember stuff written down in a README.md in my repo, but mainly most things are undocumented
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My wife was mentioning the other day that if something happened to me she'd have absolutely no idea how to work any of this shit and that convinced me to actually start documenting it LMAO
Good time to start doing it too. Aside from setting up a NAS this weekend and figuring out an audiobook solution (not something I've ever dabbled with but I really should start reading some communist theory), I've got this project right where I want it for a long while.
"Shit, i hope i remeber the key words i searched for"
I download the YouTube tutorials I followed, upload them to my UAT Jellyfin server, and then when my server is having issues I can't get to the videos!
A flawless system really
I don't, and I know that I'm fucked one day.
Now firs of all sorry for necroposting, but i found this while searching. I use claude amd markdown/yaml and serena mcp. We use tmux and shard browser to gather facts. As a bonus i can explain my setup and choices and it will format out nicely
95% of my homelab lives on a single server, and everything I do is within containers. So, my documentation is just keeping all my compose files in a git repo and writing in comments when necessary. It’s fairly self-documenting, and I haven’t found the need to break out of just using containers for everything, besides a couple things like setting up mergerfs or cockpit, but that’s all plug and play nowadays with stuff like https://projectucore.io/
Of course, I don’t have any other things set up in my physical layout or network stack… but all that stuff would probably just go into an entry in my notes (obsidian/wiki.vim).