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 a Self-Hosted AI Code Review System I've been running Continue.dev locally with Ollama for code completion for months. It works well...
Why I Needed Automated MongoDB Patching I run MongoDB 8.0 in Docker containers on my Proxmox homelab. When CVE-2025-14847 dropped in late December 2025, I was...
Why I Started Using Docker Content Trust I run a mix of self-hosted services on Proxmox and Docker, pulling images from Docker Hub, private registries, and...
Why I Started Looking Into Docker Health Checks I run most of my services through Docker Compose on Proxmox VMs. For a long time, I relied on Docker's default...
When Containers Stop Talking: My Journey Through Docker MTU Hell I run a mix of self-hosted services on Docker—monitoring tools, automation workflows,...
Why I Needed This I run MongoDB in Docker containers for several self-hosted services on my Proxmox cluster. When MongoDB announced critical security patches...
Why I Worked on This I run Portainer to manage my Docker containers across several machines. It's convenient, but it bothered me that Portainer requires direct...
Why I Hit Let's Encrypt Rate Limits I run a test environment on Proxmox where I spin up multiple VMs for different projects. Each VM gets its own subdomain...
Why I Built Multi-ISP Failover I run my home network on dual ISPs because single points of failure drive me crazy. My primary fiber connection is fast and...
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