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 Hosting Tiny Web Games I've been running game servers for years—mostly Minecraft, Valheim, that sort of thing. They're resource-heavy, need...
Why I can’t write this as a “real journey” yet This topic only works if I describe what I actually ran: which box I installed Tailscale on, where...
Why I worked on this Home Assistant’s built-in backup tool is fine for a single destination, but I wanted two things it still won’t do out of the box: Push...
Why I Built Prometheus Alerting for Systemd Timer Failures I run several systemd timers on my Proxmox host and inside various VMs. They handle backups, log...
Why I Built This I run a mixed environment at home: Debian VMs on Proxmox, Alpine containers for lightweight services, and a handful of Docker Compose stacks...
Why I Built Selective Auto-Updates for My Homelab I run about 20 Docker containers in my homelab—n8n for automation, AdGuard for DNS filtering, a few...
Why I Had to Debug This I run a small cluster of Docker services on Proxmox that auto-scale based on load. Each service has an entrypoint script that handles...
Why I Built This I run local package mirrors for Arch and Gentoo on my home network. These mirrors sync from upstream repositories every few hours using cron...
Why I Added Mermaid to My Documentation I run a self-hosted wiki for my homelab documentation. For years, I documented network diagrams, workflow sequences,...
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