# About

> Tom Cocking writes exitcode0.net: homelab, self-hosting, Home Assistant and local AI guides, each one tested on his own hardware before it is published.

Source: https://exitcode0.net/about/
Author: Tom Cocking (https://tomcocking.com)
Published: 0001-01-01
Updated: 2026-10-08



I'm Tom Cocking, a UK-based IT professional. ExitCode0 is where I write up the things I've actually set up and had to work out for myself: Proxmox and LXC, Docker, Home Assistant and Zigbee, Tailscale, local LLMs with Ollama, and the scripts that stop me doing the same job twice.

Every post starts as something I needed. Most of them are written against the kit in my own homelab, including a Proxmox host and an always-on dev VM I work from over Tailscale. If a command is in a post, I ran it. If a step went wrong for me, the troubleshooting section says so.

Posts end with a section you can hand straight to a coding agent, because that's increasingly how I use other people's guides too.

## Elsewhere

- [tomcocking.com](https://tomcocking.com), my personal site and the best place to get in touch
- [GitHub](https://github.com/Tombo1001), where the scripts from these posts live
- [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/thomascocking/)
- [DataSolace](https://datasolace.com/), the smart-home and IT consultancy I run

## Supporting the site

The site runs on ads and the occasional [coffee](https://www.buymeacoffee.com/exit). Some hardware posts carry Amazon UK affiliate links, marked at the top of the post. See the [privacy page](/privacy/) for what is and isn't collected.


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