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 Set This Up I run several services on my home network—Ollama for local LLMs, ChromaDB for vector storage, monitoring tools, and a few databases. I...
Why I Worked on This I run Pi-hole in a Podman container on my home server, and I wanted to access it remotely through Tailscale's subnet router feature. The...
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 Built This Dashboard I run multiple Docker Compose stacks on my Proxmox home lab. Some handle automation workflows, others manage data pipelines, and a...
Why I Set This Up I run multiple container environments across different teams in my homelab—development, staging, and production workloads spread across...
Why I Migrated from Docker Compose to Swarm Mode I've been running Docker Compose stacks for years—mostly on a single Proxmox node with various services like...
Why I Had to Debug This I run Pi-hole on my Proxmox server as my primary DNS filter. My Docker host uses systemd-resolved for DNS management, which seemed like...
Why I Started Looking at Shared Model Storage I run multiple Proxmox nodes in my homelab, each with different GPUs. One has an RTX 3060, another has a 1660 Ti,...
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