<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Nihil Babu</title><link>https://nihilbabu.me/</link><description>Platform and SRE engineer in Dubai. Cloud-native and cloud-agnostic environments, built for scale and security, plus open-source tools for the same headaches.</description><item><title>Home Assistant on the NAS: a local-first smart home</title><link>https://nihilbabu.me/blog/home-assistant-local-first</link><guid>https://nihilbabu.me/blog/home-assistant-local-first</guid><pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description>One container, no cloud account, and a firewall that only lets it talk one way. How Home Assistant fits into my network and where it goes next.</description></item><item><title>Building a 4K media server on a UGREEN DXP4800 Pro</title><link>https://nihilbabu.me/blog/media-server-ugreen-jellyfin</link><guid>https://nihilbabu.me/blog/media-server-ugreen-jellyfin</guid><pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description>Jellyfin, the *arr stack, a VPN for torrents only and real HTTPS on the LAN. What I built, why, and everything that broke.</description></item><item><title>Putting my smart home in a box: UniFi VLANs and a zone-based firewall</title><link>https://nihilbabu.me/blog/unifi-iot-guest-segmentation</link><guid>https://nihilbabu.me/blog/unifi-iot-guest-segmentation</guid><pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description>Why a hacked camera should not be able to see my NAS, and how I split the house into Main, IoT and Guest with UniFi.</description></item></channel></rss>