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-…
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&…
The actual problem I have a landing page (I am helping my wife generate leads for her business). It has a Google Ads campaign driving traffic to it. It also has PostHog tracking what visitors do once they arrive. Two systems, two dashboards, two browser tabs I keep open and…
I sat down tonight to build an HA Kubernetes cluster. I had two BeeLink mini PCs collecting dust, freshly installed with Ubuntu 24.04, both connected to my network over WiFi. Simple plan: switch them to wired, assign static IPs, and start building. TLDR: I did not build an HA…