Making my homelab Kubernetes rack-aware
2026-05-18
So I can take a whole rackmount offline for maintenance, any afternoon, without downtime.
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Video Streaming with Laravel
2026-04-25
How I built Samson Media — and why, for me, it beats Jellyfin.
Host Coder to run your AI Orchestrator
2026-04-12
A Gitea issue goes in, a reviewed pull request comes out — Claude Code agents running the whole SDLC in ephemeral Coder workspaces on my own cluster.
Fancy A Cup of Gitea anyone?
2026-04-11
Hosting your own GitHub might be the way to go!
Moving my video transcoding to Apple Silicon
2026-03-31
A rack of Rock Pi 5s couldn't keep up, so I moved transcoding to Apple Silicon — and built Barn to run the jobs.
Six weeks for a dev environment
2026-02-23
My new job took six weeks to give me somewhere to write code. At home it's five minutes and a few clicks.
My First Cluster
2025-02-17
My adventures with a home streaming server and Kubernetes
Jellyfin - A Buggy Mess
2024-10-24
Exploration of the "Architecture" of Jellyfin
Own Your Data
2018-06-15
How Salesforce and CRMs like it trap your data — from someone who worked on the open-source alternative.