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 Worked on This I run several Ubuntu 24.04 servers in my Proxmox homelab. These systems handle DNS, automation, monitoring, and other services that need...
Why I Built This Workflow I run a self-hosted mapping service for offline navigation when traveling through areas with poor connectivity. The problem was...
Why I Hit This Wall I run a Proxmox cluster with several Ubuntu LXC containers hosting Docker Compose stacks. These aren't fancy—mostly n8n, monitoring...
Why I Set This Up I run a Proxmox server with ZFS datasets containing VMs, container configs, and media files. My initial backup strategy was just Sanoid...
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...
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