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.
Technical notes, walkthroughs, and troubleshooting write-ups focused on self-hosting, automation, networking, and developer tooling.
Why I Built Port Knocking for WireGuard I run WireGuard on my home server to access internal services remotely. The problem is that WireGuard listens on a UDP...
Why I Had to Debug This I run several containerized services on my home network behind NAT, with Tailscale handling remote access. Everything worked fine...
Why I Needed SNI Routing Without TLS Termination I run multiple HTTPS services behind a single public IP on my home network. Each service manages its own TLS...
Why I Built a Pi-hole Failover Cluster I run Pi-hole as my primary DNS resolver at home. It blocks ads and trackers across every device on my network without...
Why I Started Looking at WireGuard QoS I run WireGuard tunnels from my home network to a couple of remote sites. One of them has a terrible connection—high...
Why I Built This Setup I run Jellyfin on multiple Proxmox VMs, each with Intel QuickSync for hardware transcoding. The problem was simple: transcoding load...
Why I Set This Up I run multiple Docker containers on my Proxmox host, and each one generates data I can't afford to lose. Configuration files, databases, user...
Why I Worked on This I needed to run multiple isolated Ollama instances on my Proxmox server, each with dedicated GPU access. My Intel Arc A380 was sitting...
Why I Built This I run several local LLMs on my Proxmox cluster—Llama models, Mistral variants, and a few experimental ones I test periodically. The problem...
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