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 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...
Why I Built This System I run Ollama on my home server to handle various AI tasks—document analysis, code review, automated responses. The problem wasn't...
Why I Built This Gateway I run multiple local LLM backends in my homelab—Ollama for quick inference, LM Studio for testing different models, and vLLM when I...
Why I Started Running Large Models Locally I needed a 70B parameter model running on hardware I actually own. Not cloud credits, not API calls with usage...
Why I Moved from Docker Volumes to Bind Mounts I run most of my services on Hetzner VPS instances. They're reliable and reasonably priced, but storage is...
Why I Had to Debug This I run multiple Docker containers on my Proxmox host for self-hosted services—n8n, Cronicle, monitoring tools, and a few experimental...
Why I Set Up a Docker Socket Proxy I run Portainer to manage my Docker containers on Proxmox. It makes things easier when I need to check logs, restart...
Why I Set This Up I run multiple Docker hosts spread across different locations — some on my home network, others at remote sites connected through...
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