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37 tags across 34 posts.

Homelab (21) Self-Hosting (15) Automation (13) Platform Engineering (9) Proxmox (7) Security (7) Docker (6) AI (4) Developer Experience (4) Engineering Leadership (4) Networking (4) IDP (3) IaC (3) AI Adoption (2) Agnes AI (2) Cloud Architecture (2) Hermes Agent (2) Storage (2) Unraid (2) Ansible (1) DNS (1) Digital Transformation (1) Disaster Recovery (1) Grafana (1) Hardware Failure (1) High Availability (1) KTLO (1) Migration (1) Nous Research (1) Observability (1) Portfolio (1) Privacy (1) Prometheus (1) SSO (1) Secrets Management (1) Tutorial (1) ZFS (1)

Homelab

21 posts

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

My Home Lab Journey: Start Here

Self-Hosting

15 posts

Run a Real AI Agent for $0: Hermes + Agnes 3 Flash + Nous Free Models

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

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

Self-Hosting Vaultwarden: Ditching 1Password for Total Password Ownership

Docker Compose All The Things: Running 10+ Services on One Host

Automation

13 posts

Production Grade Homelab #2: Ansible — No More SSH and Pray

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

Challenge Accepted: Self-Hosting a Telegram Video Bot with n8n and yt-dlp

Finishing the Decomposition: Every Service Gets Its Own Container

Xcaddy + Cloudflare Tunnel + AdGuard Home: A Simpler Homelab Edge

Homelab Disaster Recovery in Under an Hour

Automated Config Backup with Secret Redaction

Designing an Internal Developer Portal That Teams Actually Use

How Platform Engineering Creates Strategic Capacity

Dependabot Without Pull Request Fatigue: Automating Dependency Hygiene the Right Way

Git Flow Without the Ceremony Tax: A Practical Branching Strategy for Growing Teams

Platform Engineering

9 posts

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

Proxmox

7 posts

Production Grade Homelab #2: Ansible — No More SSH and Pray

From One Box to a Cluster: Building Homelab HA with Proxmox, ZFS, and a Lot of Patience

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

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

Security

7 posts

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

Docker

6 posts

Challenge Accepted: Self-Hosting a Telegram Video Bot with n8n and yt-dlp

Finishing the Decomposition: Every Service Gets Its Own Container

Self-Hosting Vaultwarden: Ditching 1Password for Total Password Ownership

Single Sign-On for Homelabs: Authentik, Traefik Forward-Auth, and Cloudflare Tunnel

Docker Compose All The Things: Running 10+ Services on One Host

My Home Lab Journey: Start Here

AI

4 posts

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

Developer Experience

4 posts

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

Engineering Leadership

4 posts

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

Networking

4 posts

From One Box to a Cluster: Building Homelab HA with Proxmox, ZFS, and a Lot of Patience

Your DNS Knows Too Much: Building a Private Recursive Resolver with Unbound

Decomposing the Monolith: Per-Service LXCs on Proxmox

Bare-Metal to VM: A Pragmatic P2V Migration to Proxmox

IDP

3 posts

The Ad-Hoc Tax: How Backstage Recovered Platform Capacity for Higher-Value Work

Designing an Internal Developer Portal That Teams Actually Use

How Platform Engineering Creates Strategic Capacity

IaC

3 posts

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

AI Adoption

2 posts

Driving AI Adoption in Platform Teams Without Losing Engineering Discipline

AI Is an Amplifier, Not a Substitute for Engineering Judgment

Agnes AI

2 posts

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

Cloud Architecture

2 posts

From Legacy to Immutable: A Practical IaC Maturity Journey

The Edge-First Frontend: Standardizing Web Architecture on Cloudflare

Hermes Agent

2 posts

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

Storage

2 posts

The Migration That Migrated Itself: Surviving a Double Disk Failure Without Parity

From NAS to DAS: Retiring My Synology Before It Retired My Data

Unraid

2 posts

The Migration That Migrated Itself: Surviving a Double Disk Failure Without Parity

From NAS to DAS: Retiring My Synology Before It Retired My Data

Ansible

1 post

Production Grade Homelab #2: Ansible — No More SSH and Pray

DNS

1 post

Your DNS Knows Too Much: Building a Private Recursive Resolver with Unbound

Digital Transformation

1 post

SaaS for Wholesale in Automotive: What Good Digital Transformation Looks Like

Disaster Recovery

1 post

Homelab Disaster Recovery in Under an Hour

Grafana

1 post

Production Grade Homelab #1: Seeing Everything — Prometheus, Grafana, Loki & Alertmanager

Hardware Failure

1 post

The Migration That Migrated Itself: Surviving a Double Disk Failure Without Parity

High Availability

1 post

From One Box to a Cluster: Building Homelab HA with Proxmox, ZFS, and a Lot of Patience

KTLO

1 post

How Platform Engineering Creates Strategic Capacity

Migration

1 post

From NAS to DAS: Retiring My Synology Before It Retired My Data

Nous Research

1 post

Run a Real AI Agent for $0: Hermes + Agnes 3 Flash + Nous Free Models

Observability

1 post

Production Grade Homelab #1: Seeing Everything — Prometheus, Grafana, Loki & Alertmanager

Portfolio

1 post

Giving My Blog Posts a Visual Identity with Agnes AI and a Custom Hermes Skill

Privacy

1 post

Your DNS Knows Too Much: Building a Private Recursive Resolver with Unbound

Prometheus

1 post

Production Grade Homelab #1: Seeing Everything — Prometheus, Grafana, Loki & Alertmanager

SSO

1 post

Single Sign-On for Homelabs: Authentik, Traefik Forward-Auth, and Cloudflare Tunnel

Secrets Management

1 post

Secrets Management for Homelabs: Redaction, Scanning, and Rehydration

Tutorial

1 post

Run a Real AI Agent for $0: Hermes + Agnes 3 Flash + Nous Free Models

ZFS

1 post

From One Box to a Cluster: Building Homelab HA with Proxmox, ZFS, and a Lot of Patience