With 15+ years of experience, I specialize in self-hosting, AI automation, and Vibe Coding – building applications using AI-powered tools like Google Antigravity, Dyad, and Cline. From homelabs to enterprise solutions.
Running your own servers and services
Why I Built This I take snapshots of my TrueNAS datasets every day. They're automatic, they're versioned, and they sit there quietly in the background. For a...
Why I worked on this Two weeks after DSM 7.2 landed on my DS920+ every container that used to sit at 2–4 % CPU started pegging one core. The Container...
Why I Started Moving Windows VMs to Linux Containers I run a Proxmox cluster at home that's accumulated several Windows VMs over the years. Most of them...
Why I Needed a Better Photo Backup System I've been running Synology Photos for years. My NAS holds thousands of family photos, and the built-in backup from my...
Why I Moved VMs from Proxmox to TrueNAS SCALE I've been running Proxmox for years—mostly on older hardware that still had life left in it. My main Proxmox...
Why I Hit This Wall I run a Proxmox cluster with several Ubuntu LXC containers hosting Docker Compose stacks. These aren't fancy—mostly n8n, monitoring...
Why I Set This Up I run a Proxmox server with ZFS datasets containing VMs, container configs, and media files. My initial backup strategy was just Sanoid...
Why I Started Looking at systemd-nspawn for Docker Workloads I run a lot of Docker containers on Proxmox. For years, my setup was straightforward: one or two...
Why I Started Using Docker Health Checks I run a handful of services in Docker that depend on external APIs — weather data feeds, RSS aggregators, and a few...
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