Roll your own stratum 1 NTP server!

In July of 2024, I posted I added a Stratum 1 NTP server to my homelab to reddit. According to that posts analytics, it got 151K total views, 445 total shares and 354 magical internet points, now that’s pretty damn awesome. I hope that the post inspired others to also create their own NTP servers for their own homelab! While yes, it was posted awhile ago, I thought I’d do a nice write-up on why I did it, what I did and how it’s going. ...

January 20, 2025 · 7 min · shrunbr

Annnddd....we're back!

Welcome! I’ve decided to restart shrunbr.dev as a place for me to start documenting my homelab journey again. Of course, along with homelabbing I also have other interests so they might end up here too. What have you been working on? I have been wanting to play around with container orchestration for awhile and I just recently dove in head first. I’ve explored Kubernetes in the past but something about it just really bothers me, I’m not a huge fan of it. I know that it’s the “de facto” solution but there is another out there that is slowly up and coming…HashiCorp Nomad. ...

January 18, 2025 · 2 min · shrunbr