Hi there! Hope you’re doing well :)

A lot has changed over the last few years since I wrote the original TurtleNet series back in 2023. Especially with the rise of local AI and self-hosted agents like OpenClaw, interest in homelabs and servers has never been this high in probably all of history. I reckon it was about time to update TurtleNet to accurately represent the state of the homelabbing world in 2026.

I hope this series was even a fraction as fun and helpful for you as it was for me.

Now that I maintain servers as a full-time job, it’s pretty tough for me to find the time and energy outside of work to continue building out my personal homelab. As such, I don’t anticipate any major updates to TurtleNet in the coming future (assuming things continue running with minimal effort as they have for the past year or so).

I’d like to write about real production servers at some point, now that I have experience running them at scale! Since there are already plenty of great resources about this topic online, I still need to let this thought stew a bit so I can find the missing pieces I’m most able to contribute to meaningfully. This will likely look like a more formal extension of my current ML Systems Engineering Syllabus.

If you had a good time, learned something new, found any bugs, or otherwise want to chat about something, my inbox is open.

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So long for now, and thanks for all the fish,