Hedgenet is a living notebook for experiments, ideas, and hard-won lessons. It sits somewhere between a homelab journal, a technical knowledge base, and a place to document how curiosity tends to get out of hand.
This wiki exists for two reasons:
You’ll find notes on networking, infrastructure, self-hosting, automation, gaming, world-building, and the occasional side quest that started with “this should be simple” and ended several evenings later. Some pages are polished. Others are rough, scribbled, and very much in progress. That’s intentional.
Hedgenet is not a product, a portfolio, or a definitive source of truth. It’s a map of explored territory, complete with dead ends, revisions, and “don’t do it this way” markers.
If something is wrong, outdated, or poorly explained, it will eventually be corrected. Probably.
Most setups are shaped by constraints: budget, hardware, time, or sheer stubbornness. What works here may not work everywhere.
Shortcuts happen during experiments. They should not survive into production… or the internet.
If it isn’t written down, it didn’t really happen. Or it will happen again. Worse.
Breaking things in a controlled environment is not failure; it’s research with better stories.
If you’re browsing, take what’s useful and ignore the rest. If you’re building something similar, consider this a companion log from someone else wandering through the same maze—just at a slightly different angle.
Welcome to Hedgenet.