The Itch A few of my homelab boxes live in the garage. In Florida. The garage stays manageable most of the year, the rack vents to ambient, and the Everwell mini split bolted to the wall keeps things comfortable whenever I remember to turn it on. The "remember"…
Where We Left Off Part 1 ended with a shiny new 3-node HA Kubernetes cluster: one Proxmox VM and two BeeLink mini PCs, glued together with kubeadm, kube-vip, and Flannel. The control plane was HA, the etcd quorum was solid, and the VIP survived any single-node failure. The cluster was…
The Itch My wife runs a small property management business and I host the Rails apps that run it. Main app, background job workers, queue database, the usual. All of it sitting on a single PostgreSQL container on one Docker host in my homelab. One machine, one process, one very…
I've been running emir.fyi and a handful of other services through a single Cloudflare Tunnel for months. Worked fine. Never thought about it. Then I started setting up a new domain example.com as a dry-run for another domain that's about to carry lead-gen traffic…
How It Started I was working on something unrelated, that I may or may not blog about, and I asked Claude to pull up one of my own blog posts for context. Just a URL fetch. Nothing fancy. And yes, I read my own blog. Often. Half the reason I…
Why I'm Writing This One Most of my blog posts are about building something new. Setting up a service, wiring things together, getting the green light. Those are fun to write. But I think there is more to learn from the posts where something went wrong. Mistakes in…
What Started This My Kubernetes cluster had a problem I'd been ignoring for months: one control plane node. A single Proxmox VM running etcd, the API server, the scheduler, all of it. If that VM went down, even for a routine Proxmox update, the entire cluster was unreachable.…
The Itch I have a homelab full of services that only exist on my LAN. Frigate watches my cameras. Paperless holds every document I own. SiYuan has all my notes. Vaultwarden keeps my passwords. These all live behind my router on a private 192.168.1.x subnet, and that&…