The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source The state of homelab tech (2026) (Friends)
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Jan 24, 2026 Techno Tim, homelab creator and YouTuber known for hands-on self-hosting, Proxmox and TrueNAS tutorials. They talk hardware scarcity and why 2026 is the Year of Self-Hosted Software. Conversations cover vision-enabled OCR, document pipelines, unleashing Claude for networking fixes, Proxmox automation with PXM CLI, hybrid ZFS layouts, clustering strategies, and using agents as homelab copilots.
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Use Vision Models For Better OCR
- Use vision-trained multimodal models to improve OCR accuracy over traditional OCR.
- Feed scanned documents through a small local model for higher-fidelity serials and metadata extraction.
Prep Docs For RAG With Dockling
- Parse documents with tools like Dockling or PaddleOCR to preserve structure and metadata for RAG pipelines.
- Convert extracted tables and sections into Markdown to maintain semantics for downstream use.
Save Raw Images As Your Bronze Layer
- Keep raw scanned images as a bronze layer so you can reprocess later with better models.
- Apply medallion ETL (bronze/silver/gold) to transform, clean, and produce production-ready data.