Articles
Scratch notes and experiments alongside the docs.
A few months with PowerScale
Learning Dell PowerScale as a sysadmin - clusters, snapshots, SyncIQ, upgrades, and the quiet realisation that enterprise storage is mostly careful change.
CrowdSec in front of Traefik
Community blocklists, a Traefik bouncer plugin, and a few cscli habits that keep the noisy internet out of the home lab.
Setting up a local CA (and why bother)
Using mkcert for a homelab certificate authority, wiring it into Traefik, and getting the green padlock on every device.
From A1 Mini to X2D
A short tour through Bambu printers, AMS multi-colour, and finally opening Autodesk Fusion instead of only downloading other people’s models.
Why chilled.beer exists
A silly domain, a rotating gallery of cold beers with decent views, and a countdown to 5pm - because some things deserve a little appreciation.
Home DC
How a Raspberry Pi hobby turned into a garage rack, a mesh VPN, and the quiet realisation that I am too far in to stop now.