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 This I run local package mirrors for Arch and Gentoo on my home network. These mirrors sync from upstream repositories every few hours using cron...
Why I Added Mermaid to My Documentation I run a self-hosted wiki for my homelab documentation. For years, I documented network diagrams, workflow sequences,...
Why This Happened I run a multi-VLAN homelab on Proxmox with segregated networks for management, IoT devices, guest access, and production services. Everything...
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 Built This I run several containerized services on my Proxmox homelab, and I've had deployments break in ways that weren't immediately obvious. A new...
Why I Started Tracking This Problem I run containers across multiple Proxmox hosts in different physical locations. Some are at home, some on a VPS in...
Why I Had to Fix This I run several Docker Compose stacks on my home server—mostly monitoring tools, automation services, and a few databases. Everything...
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