Infrastructure

You know how people say “what’s the worst that could happen?” I’m here to tell you. The worst that could happen is your toaster DDoSing your entire home network on a Tuesday …

I made a mistake. I bought a smart fridge. In my defense, it was on sale, and it had a little screen on it that showed the weather. I am, apparently, the exact demographic for this kind of …

I automated my coffee maker. Not because I’m lazy (I am), but because I wanted to see if I could trigger a coffee brew via an MQTT message. The answer is yes. The follow-up question is …

I keep meaning to set up a proper 3-2-1 backup strategy. I’ve read the blog posts. I’ve watched the talks. I know what I should do. I have a whole Notion page about it. The Notion page is …

It started innocently enough. I wanted to load a photo of my cat from my phone without waiting a whole 0.3 seconds. Three months, fourteen configuration files, and one existential crisis later, I had …

I installed Kubernetes in my house. Not because I needed it. Because I was sad. Therapy is $200 an hour. A three-node homelab cluster is $800 once and it distracts you from your problems for years. Do …

My girlfriend asked me to hang a picture. One picture. A simple task that any reasonable person would complete in approximately 11 minutes. Three hours later I had ripped out all the coax cable from …