Synology Subdomains: SSL, Reverse Proxy, and Dynamic DNS
A subdomain that wouldn't resolve. An SSL certificate that existed but didn't work. Three hours of debugging Synology's certificate management to learn it was never properly assigned.
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The 463-Message Traefik Nightmare
Four days, 463 messages, and one reverse proxy that refused to cooperate. The story of how I containerized my entire infrastructure by sheer stubbornness.
Self-Hosting RustDesk: Breaking Free from TeamViewer
I self-hosted RustDesk to replace TeamViewer. Then spent three days debugging why I couldn't connect to anything from inside my own network. NAT hairpinning strikes again.
Build Swarm: From Chaos to Production
A week of making the Gentoo build swarm actually reliable. Runaway drones, dead cron jobs, self-healing systems, and the satisfaction of watching it all come together.
The Command Center Saga: 10 Days of Homelab Chaos, Recovery, and Finally Breathing
Storage archaeology, dashboard building, a power crisis, log floods, network ghosts, phone-guided Proxmox recovery, and the documentation sprint that made it all worth it. The complete story.
Build Swarm v1.0: The Release
Three months ago, a rogue drone failed the same build 500 times in a minute. Today, the swarm self-heals in 60 seconds. This is v1.0.
The Rate Limit Cascade: How wakeMode Took Down Five Providers in Ten Seconds
I restarted a container and every free-tier LLM provider went down at the same time. Groq, Cerebras, SambaNova, OpenRouter, NVIDIA NIM — all exhausted in a chain reaction that started with a single config flag.
Two Weeks, One Password: The Gentoo Recovery Saga
A 1,556-package @world update crashed while KDE was running. The emerge completed on its own — but libxcrypt lost SHA512 support, /etc/shadow got corrupted, and login was impossible. The fix took 14 days, a dual-boot chroot, and a 28KB automated recovery script.
Infrastructure as Code: Ansible and Terraform for the Homelab
Moving from manual SSH and shell scripts to declarative infrastructure management using Ansible playbooks and Terraform.
12 Years of Homelab Evolution: From Seedbox to Massive Storage
The complete timeline of my homelab journey. ESXi to Proxmox, single drives to redundant arrays, VPNs to mesh networks. What worked, what broke, and why I'm still doing this.
Managing Remote Hypervisors with Proxmox
Running Proxmox VE at a remote location. LXC containers, ZFS storage, VPN connectivity, and managing infrastructure you can't physically touch.
Seven Services, One Hour: Deploying a Complete Monitoring Stack
Deploying Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, cAdvisor, Smokeping, Healthchecks, and Promtail on one box. Seven containers, 45 minutes, and one ironic nodejs detour.