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…
Why I wanted comments I write blog posts about my homelab projects. People read them, some of them find them useful, and I know this because occasionally someone messages me on Linkedin. But there's no way for readers to leave feedback right there on the post. No "…
Background When I first set up Frigate NVR on my M1 Mac Mini, the AI detection worked, but it was running entirely on the CPU. Three Amcrest PoE cameras, each pushing a detect stream, with every frame getting processed through a CPU-based ONNX detector at ~29ms per inference. The…