Notes on homelab adventures, systems programming, networking deep-dives, and the tools I'm learning along the way.
After running bare-metal services for years, I finally containerized everything into Proxmox. Here's what I learned about networking, storage pools, snapshot workflows, and why you should never ever skip backups — no matter how confident you feel that nothing will go wrong.
Read post →Instead of reaching for a library, I implemented the DNS wire protocol from scratch over raw UDP sockets. Painful, educational, and absolutely worth it for understanding how domain lookups actually work under the hood.
A developer's honest six-month journey through Neovim config rabbit holes, Lua plugin landscapes, and the realisation that a hybrid workflow might actually beat both extremes.
Every morning at 7am, a Pi Zero 2W pulls weather, calendar events, and top Hacker News posts, then formats a clean digest and pushes it to my phone. Full build inside.
TLS is one of those things we all rely on but few truly understand. I walked through RFC 8446, implemented a simplified handshake in Python, and I'll never take HTTPS for granted again.
After years of sprawling compose files, I've distilled the patterns that actually matter: health checks, dependency ordering, secrets management, and multi-environment overrides that don't make you cry.