34 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
9 posts
Building platforms that multiply team capacity — IaC maturity, Backstage, automation, and reducing KTLO.
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
4 posts
Leading engineering teams through uncertainty, AI adoption, and organisational change.
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
6 posts
AI adoption, agent-driven workflows, and automating the boring parts of engineering.
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