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 Digging Into OOM Kills I run a Proxmox cluster at home with dozens of Docker containers handling everything from automation workflows to AI...
Why I Moved from Docker Compose to Rootless Podman with Quadlet I've been running containerized services on my home infrastructure for years—mostly on...
Why I Had to Fix This I run Home Assistant and Frigate NVR behind an Nginx reverse proxy on my Proxmox host. Both services rely heavily on WebSockets—Home...
Why I Built a DNS-over-HTTPS Failover Chain I run Pi-hole as my network-wide DNS resolver and ad blocker. It works well, but I kept hitting two problems: My...
Why I Needed This I run multiple VLANs at home—one for trusted devices, one for IoT gadgets, and another for guests. My ISP doesn't respect privacy, and I...
Why I Needed This I run multiple services on my home network—mostly Docker containers for personal projects, monitoring tools, and automation workflows. For...
Why I Needed to Fix This I run Pi-hole on my home network for ad blocking and local DNS resolution. I also use Tailscale to access my home network remotely....
Why I Started Tracking Homelab Costs in Plain Text I run a homelab on Synology NAS and Proxmox. After a year of adding drives, upgrading RAM, and spinning up...
Why I Worked on This I run Ollama on Proxmox with two different GPUs: an RTX 2060 (6GB VRAM) and an RTX 3090 (24GB VRAM). For months, this worked fine. Then...
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