36 posts across 8 categories — browsable by topic.
21 posts
Field notes from building and running a self-hosted homelab on Proxmox, Docker, and Unraid.
Production Grade Homelab #2: Ansible — No More SSH and Pray
Production Grade Homelab #1: Seeing Everything — Prometheus, Grafana, Loki & Alertmanager
From One Box to a Cluster: Building Homelab HA with Proxmox, ZFS, and a Lot of Patience
Giving My Blog Posts a Visual Identity with Agnes AI and a Custom Hermes Skill
Your DNS Knows Too Much: Building a Private Recursive Resolver with Unbound
Homelab Brain Transplant: Giving Hermes a Proper Linux Home
The Migration That Migrated Itself: Surviving a Double Disk Failure Without Parity
From NAS to DAS: Retiring My Synology Before It Retired My Data
I Gave My Homelab an AI Brain: Documenting Everything and Wiring It to Telegram with Hermes
Challenge Accepted: Self-Hosting a Telegram Video Bot with n8n and yt-dlp
Finishing the Decomposition: Every Service Gets Its Own Container
Decomposing the Monolith: Per-Service LXCs on Proxmox
Bare-Metal to VM: A Pragmatic P2V Migration to Proxmox
Xcaddy + Cloudflare Tunnel + AdGuard Home: A Simpler Homelab Edge
Self-Hosting Vaultwarden: Ditching 1Password for Total Password Ownership
Single Sign-On for Homelabs: Authentik, Traefik Forward-Auth, and Cloudflare Tunnel
Secrets Management for Homelabs: Redaction, Scanning, and Rehydration
Homelab Disaster Recovery in Under an Hour
Automated Config Backup with Secret Redaction
Docker Compose All The Things: Running 10+ Services on One Host
11 posts
Building platforms that multiply team capacity — IaC maturity, Backstage, automation, and reducing KTLO.
Never Start From Zero: Building Salty, a Team-Memory Agent for Platform Investigations
AI or Die: Why Leadership, Not Technology, Decides Who Survives
The Ad-Hoc Tax: How Backstage Recovered Platform Capacity for Higher-Value Work
Platform Engineering Works When Innovation Ships With Guardrails
Driving AI Adoption in Platform Teams Without Losing Engineering Discipline
My Home Lab Journey: Start Here
From Legacy to Immutable: A Practical IaC Maturity Journey
How Platform Engineering Creates Strategic Capacity
The Edge-First Frontend: Standardizing Web Architecture on Cloudflare
Dependabot Without Pull Request Fatigue: Automating Dependency Hygiene the Right Way
Git Flow Without the Ceremony Tax: A Practical Branching Strategy for Growing Teams
5 posts
Leading engineering teams through uncertainty, AI adoption, and organisational change.
AI or Die: Why Leadership, Not Technology, Decides Who Survives
Driving AI Adoption in Platform Teams Without Losing Engineering Discipline
Leading Through Uncertainty Without Performing False Confidence
AI Is an Amplifier, Not a Substitute for Engineering Judgment
SaaS for Wholesale in Automotive: What Good Digital Transformation Looks Like
4 posts
Internal developer portals, self-service workflows, and removing friction for engineering teams.
The Ad-Hoc Tax: How Backstage Recovered Platform Capacity for Higher-Value Work
Platform Engineering Works When Innovation Ships With Guardrails
Designing an Internal Developer Portal That Teams Actually Use
Git Flow Without the Ceremony Tax: A Practical Branching Strategy for Growing Teams
7 posts
Secrets management, DevSecOps, password ownership, and zero-trust homelab networking.
Xcaddy + Cloudflare Tunnel + AdGuard Home: A Simpler Homelab Edge
Self-Hosting Vaultwarden: Ditching 1Password for Total Password Ownership
Single Sign-On for Homelabs: Authentik, Traefik Forward-Auth, and Cloudflare Tunnel
Secrets Management for Homelabs: Redaction, Scanning, and Rehydration
Automated Config Backup with Secret Redaction
The Edge-First Frontend: Standardizing Web Architecture on Cloudflare
Dependabot Without Pull Request Fatigue: Automating Dependency Hygiene the Right Way
8 posts
AI adoption, agent-driven workflows, and automating the boring parts of engineering.
Never Start From Zero: Building Salty, a Team-Memory Agent for Platform Investigations
AI or Die: Why Leadership, Not Technology, Decides Who Survives
Run a Real AI Agent for $0: Hermes + Agnes 3 Flash + Nous Free Models
Giving My Blog Posts a Visual Identity with Agnes AI and a Custom Hermes Skill
Homelab Brain Transplant: Giving Hermes a Proper Linux Home
I Gave My Homelab an AI Brain: Documenting Everything and Wiring It to Telegram with Hermes
Driving AI Adoption in Platform Teams Without Losing Engineering Discipline
AI Is an Amplifier, Not a Substitute for Engineering Judgment
4 posts
Edge-first frontends, immutable infrastructure, and Cloudflare-native architecture patterns.
Production Grade Homelab #2: Ansible — No More SSH and Pray
Production Grade Homelab #1: Seeing Everything — Prometheus, Grafana, Loki & Alertmanager
From Legacy to Immutable: A Practical IaC Maturity Journey
The Edge-First Frontend: Standardizing Web Architecture on Cloudflare
1 post
Practical digital transformation in operational industries — what good looks like on the ground.
SaaS for Wholesale in Automotive: What Good Digital Transformation Looks Like