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title: "A homelab adventure"
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publishDate: "18 Nov 2025"
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description: "\"Fine, I'll do it myself.\""
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tags: ["software", "homelab"]
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---
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## The bare minimum
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When I think back, it all started with a friend asking if I can help them learn proxmox. I didn't know anything about
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proxmox, so I told them sorry, but it somehow stuck with me. Few months later I realized I'm not really using my mini
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gmktec pc for much. I initially bought it for playing league of legends, since I'm daily driving linux and it was about
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time riot decided to require installing a rootkit on your specifically windows machine to play their game. I found
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myself not playing much, so it went. I grabbed a thumb drive, burned proxmox iso on it and gave it a go.
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After the first impressions of the web interface, I kew what should be the first service to run on it. Pihole. I've
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been using adguard dns on my router before, but I liked the idea of hosting dns server locally on my own network. It
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even comes with an option to define local dns records, so I can use actual domain names instead of ip addresses to
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access my other services.
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Very second thing I installed was homeassistant. I actually tested using it before, hosted on my main PC in a docker
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container, but it lacked plugin support and some things I wanted to do were just not possible without them. Thus, my
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first actual VM was born. The only smart device I had at the time was a lightbulb in my room, that I was using a mobile
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app to control. Luckily the bulb fully supported homeassistant, so I just hooked it right up, and now I can turn it off
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if I forget to do it before going out.
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## The files
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So, now that I had a dedicated machine running proxmox I might as well host my music and movies on it, right? So I
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created jellyfin CT. When doing so, I made my first mistake. "I need space for my media, so I'll just create a 1TB mount
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point. What could go wrong?". Well, turns out that a lot can go wrong when you later decide to add more services that
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concern media, like navidrome for music streaming. And now I need to duplicate my music files, because there is no easy
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way to share the same local storage between two containers that is not absolutely cursed. So I pivot straight into
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another mistake: doing the exact same thing, but with samba server. Now I have a local mount point on that smb share and
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at least I can share my media between multiple containers and even manage the files myself from my pc. While it's still
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not great, it's an upgrade. At least I don't have to duplicate my files anymore. With that disaster temporarily out of
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the way it's time to add some actually useful stuff.
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## The useful stuff
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I got Homarr as a dashboard for quick access to my other services. While it's working fine for me, I'm considering
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writing my own dashboard in the future to have ultimate control over it. Next were Prowlarr and deluge client, deluge of
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course having mounted my smb share as download location. I also added n8n instance, mainly to mess around with, but
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it ended up being pretty simple way of automating a few things, including discord notifications for articles from this
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very blog! Next up, freshRSS for centralizing my news and youtube subscriptions in one place.
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Having all of that is sure nice and all, but what if I want to go somewhere and still be able to watch me some anime
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or listen to my music on the go? Sadly this part kinda sucks. My asus router I got way before I did any thinking about
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homelabbing has vpn built in, so I just set that up and am now using wireguard to connect directly to my home network.
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For now, it works. I plan on building my own router in the future, so I can have more control, because asus stock
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firmware absolutely sucks and requires consent to send data to their servers to enable any functionality that might be
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remotely useful.
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## Gaming
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For the longest time I wanted to get my forever minecraft world off the internet and host it in my house, so I can still
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access it if the internet goes down. I simply installed pterodactyl wings CT and added it to my existing pterodactyl
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panel (which after today's cloudflare outage I now plan to also bring onto my homelab). Now my world, testing server and
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a proxy are running on my mini pc. I still want my friends to be albe to join, so I repurposed the old vps where the
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server was running before and set up nginx and haproxy to forward the traffic to the minecraft proxy running at home.
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The old vps happens to have 500mbps connection and my home connection is 1tbps, so even if the nightmare scenario
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happens and the proxy gets ddosed, I will still enough wiggle room to keep my home connection usable.
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## The storage situation
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Turns out having just 2 nvme slots with 1tb and 4tb drives respectively is not enough if you want to download all media
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you might ever want to watch. Free space was running low and it was running out fast. I decided to make an actual
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investment into my home setup and bought a 4-bay NAS from terra master. For the drives, I got 3 12tb WD purples and
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set them up in raid5, giving me 24tb of usable space with basic redundancy. I could now move all my media files off the
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mini pc and start using that space for more things. I still use that 4tb nvme as a file server for some of the
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containers that need faster storage, but most of the files now live on the NAS.
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As I got a separate device for storage, I've set it up so proxmox now backups all the VMs and CTs directly onto the NAS.
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Pterodactyl wings on my proxmox node are also now configured to save backups on the NAS. I also had borg backup set up
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for my main pc, but I just changed my daily driver distro from ubuntu to cachyos and I haven't found time to set up borg
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on it yet, but hopefully I will manage to get enough time to do it before any major failure happens.
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## Smart home
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I mentioned that while setting up homeassistant I only had a smart bulb to play with. Since then, I've been accumulating
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IoT devices. My room now has a smart extension cord that tracks how much power my pc is using, I switched all lightbulbs
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in the house to ones I can control with homeassistant and I made some automations involving the wireless switches that
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communicate over zigbee. I also own a roomba, which I can control with homeassistant, but it's been getting worse and
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worse since I disconnected it from the internet, so when it finally dies I plan on replacing it with a vacuum that I can
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flash with custom firmware and fully control locally. Some miscellaneous things I also have zigbee thermometers per
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room, printer and tv. I don't trust any of the electronic locks, so none of that will be ever happening.
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## Where am I now?
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In a pretty good place, I feel. Things are running smoothly, I have backups and redundancy in place. Some basic
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automation and more freedom with what I can do in my house. Of course, there's still things to do. Like finally sorting
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out that leftover local storage that was left on the original samba server CT and migrating all the files from it onto
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properly mounted directory that can be accessed by multiple containers without going though network stack. I learned
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quite a bit from this whole endeavor and I know I will learn more as I improve and expand my homelab. I'll be sure to
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share any major updates to the story here, so check back, or even subscribe to the RSS feed linked to this site!
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category: "minecraft"
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name: "Censura"
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description: "Advanced censorship plugin for bukkit minecraft servers."
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description: "Advanced censorship plugin for bukkit minecraft servers. Filters all possible in gameplay text inputs."
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image: "/assets/projects/censura.webp"
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links: [
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category: "minecraft"
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name: "CommandWhitelist"
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description: "Minecraft bukkit plugin that allows to control precisely what commands players can see and use."
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description: "Minecraft bukkit plugin that allows to control precisely what commands players can see and use. Created as
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a band-aid solution for bad plugins that do not add permission association in their commands."
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image: "/assets/projects/cw.png"
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links: [
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category: "websites"
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name: "Disciple of Land"
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description: "FFXIV gathering node timers."
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description: "FFXIV gathering node timers. Tracks which gathering nodes of time limited availability are currently available and where to teleport."
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image: "/assets/projects/dol.png"
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links: [
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category: "websites"
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name: "Dumb Forks Generator"
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description: "PHP name generator for dumb minecraft server software fork names."
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description: "PHP generator for dumb minecraft server software fork names. Inspired by ridiculous names of various minecraft server software forks."
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image: "/assets/projects/dumbforkgenerator.png"
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links: [
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{
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text: "Website",
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url: "https://dumbforks.yht.one"
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},
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{
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text: "Source",
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url: "https://github.com/YouHaveTrouble/dumb-fork-name-generator"
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},
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]
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technologies:
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- "php"
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category: "minecraft"
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name: "Enchantio"
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description: "Minecraft paper plugin that adds new enchantments that are in line with vanilla Minecraft feel."
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description: "Minecraft paper plugin that adds new enchantments that are in line with vanilla Minecraft feel. One of the
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first paper plugins that uses native enchants instead of hacking them in via custom data."
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image: "/assets/projects/enchantio.png"
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links: [
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category: "websites"
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name: "Guild Master"
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description: "Adventurer's guild management browser game."
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description: "Adventurer's guild management browser game. Semi-idle game where you manage an adventurer's guild by
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sending adventurers on quests, updating facilities, and expanding your guild."
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image: "/assets/projects/guildmaster.png"
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links: [
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category: "websites"
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name: "Image Functions"
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description: "Image file manipulation in the browser."
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description: "Image file manipulation in the browser. Simply upload an image and you can resize and convert it to
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multiple formats. All client side, no servers involved."
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image: "/assets/projects/image-functions.png"
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links: [
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category: "bots"
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name: "Inviter"
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description: "Simple discord bot that allows you to have a static invite link."
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description: "Simple discord bot that allows you to have a static invite link. Discord sometimes drops invite links, or
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someone can mistakenly remove them. This bot creates a new temporary link which makes sure user can never face invalid
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link."
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image: "/assets/projects/inviter.png"
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links: [
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category: "websites"
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name: "Interesting Website of the Day"
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description: "Daily showcase of interesting websites from my personal database."
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description: "Daily showcase of interesting websites from my personal database. It's anything and everything."
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image: "/assets/projects/iwotd.png"
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links: [
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category: "websites"
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name: "MeAPI"
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description: "API about me. See if I'm online, and if so, what game I'm playing."
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description: "API about me. See if I'm online, and if so, what game I'm playing. It's even used on this site in the
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\"Activity\" section of the homepage"
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image: "/assets/projects/meapi.png"
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links: [
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category: "game engines"
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name: "Mobrrr"
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description: "Ground up game engine for moba and strategy games."
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description: "Ground up game engine for moba and strategy games. I created it to learn the inner workings of the basics
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of game engines and problems that arise when having to do things fast rather than pretty."
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image: "/assets/projects/mobrrr.png"
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links: [
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category: "bots"
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name: "Noted"
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description: "Canned response self-hosted discord app."
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description: "Canned response self-hosted discord app. Meant to be hosted on your computer and server. Notes can be
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added in bot's private channel and used in any channel either bot has access to or user has bot interaction permissions
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in."
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image: "/assets/projects/noted.png"
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category: "minecraft"
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name: "NotJustNameplates"
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description: "Minecraft purpur plugin replacing player nametags with display entities for ultimate control over them."
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description: "Minecraft purpur plugin replacing player nametags with display entities for ultimate control over them.
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Completely replaces player names with text display entities removing character limit and allowing styling the text
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however you want."
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image: "/assets/projects/njn.png"
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category: "minecraft"
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name: "PreventStabby"
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description: "Minecraft bukkit plugin that gives more control over PvP capabilities."
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description: "Minecraft bukkit plugin that gives more control over PvP capabilities. Players can toggle their PvP status.
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Plugin protects players, their pets and mounds from practically all types of damage caused by other players that can be
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determined."
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image: "/assets/projects/ps.webp"
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category: "minecraft"
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name: "PurpurExtras"
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description: "A companion plugin for Purpur server software that adds additional features and improvements."
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description: "A companion plugin for Purpur server software that adds additional features and improvements. This is a
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collection of features that were deemed easier to implement and maintain as a plugin rather then integrating them into
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the server software."
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category: "minecraft"
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name: "Purpur"
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description: "Purpur is a drop-in replacement for Paper servers designed for configurability and new, fun, exciting gameplay features."
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description: "Purpur is a minecraft server software that is a drop-in replacement for Paper servers,designed for
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configurability and new, fun, exciting gameplay features."
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image: "/assets/projects/purpur.svg"
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category: "minecraft"
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name: "YardWatch"
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description: "A pair of API and bukkit plugin that unifies protection plugin APIs."
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description: "A pair of API and bukkit plugin that unifies protection plugin APIs. Has basic implementations for multiple
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popular protection plugins. Some of those plugins decided to implement YardWatch API natively as well (FactionsUUID)"
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image: "/assets/projects/yardwatch.png"
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