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 Looking at systemd-nspawn for Docker Workloads I run a lot of Docker containers on Proxmox. For years, my setup was straightforward: one or two...
Why I Started Using Docker Health Checks I run a handful of services in Docker that depend on external APIs — weather data feeds, RSS aggregators, and a few...
Why I Built This I needed offline maps that would actually work when cell service drops. Not a cached view that expires, not a "download for offline" feature...
Why I Worked on This I run rootless Podman on WSL2 because I prefer not running containers as root. My setup includes docker-compose pointing at Podman's...
Why I Built This I run multiple services across my home lab—Proxmox containers, Docker stacks, Synology apps—and I got tired of discovering failures hours...
Why I Built a Bash Dashboard for ZFS, SMART, and UPS Monitoring I run a Proxmox server with ZFS pools that hold everything from VM images to backups. Over...
Why I Built This I run about 15 Docker containers across my Proxmox cluster and Synology NAS. Most of them just work, but some have this annoying habit of...
Why I Built This Workflow I run multiple Docker containers on my Proxmox host, and logs pile up fast. Without rotation or cleanup, they eat disk space and make...
Why I Needed Rate Limiting on My Bitwarden Instance I run Bitwarden (technically Vaultwarden, the lightweight Rust implementation) on my Proxmox homelab. It's...
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