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 Started Using Caddy for Legacy Services I run several older web applications in my homelab—tools I built years ago or inherited from previous projects....
Why I Built Automated Firewall Rule Testing After a late-night production outage caused by a misconfigured iptables rule, I decided enough was enough. Manually...
Debugging DNS Resolution Failures in WireGuard Split-Tunnel Configurations: Fixing Leaked Queries and Enforcing Pi-hole for All Tunnel Traffic Why I worked on...
Implementing API-Driven Audio Routing: Controlling Bose SoundTouch Speakers with NGINX Reverse Proxy and Custom Authentication Middleware Why I worked on this...
Why I Worked on This Like many developers, I use AI coding assistants daily. While they speed up writing infrastructure-as-code, I've noticed they occasionally...
Setting Up Geofence-Based Home Automation with OwnTracks and n8n I've been running a self-hosted home automation setup for years, and one of the most useful...
Why I Worked on This I've been using local LLMs for code generation and automation for a while now. The more I used them, the more I realized that subtle edge...
Why I Implemented LLM-Powered Cron Job Failure Analysis I run a fleet of Kubernetes CronJobs for backups, data processing, and cleanup tasks. While Prometheus...
Automating Bose SoundTouch Speaker Control with n8n Webhooks: Building Voice-Free Home Audio Triggers I've been working on making my home audio system more...
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