// SERIES · MULTI-PART DEEP DIVES

Bigger stories,
told in parts.

Some topics don't fit in one post. These are the multi-part investigations — each series is meant to be read in order.

SERIES · 1 PART

Behind This Site

How this blog actually runs: the static build, the free hosting, the search index, the CI pipeline — every moving part, with real configs and real costs.

  1. 01How This Blog Runs for $0 a Month

SERIES · 5 PARTS

The Homelab

The lab exists to learn on. Every post is the same shape: a real problem I hit, what I tried, what actually worked, and what it taught me — Proxmox and ZFS, a fleet of bare-metal misfits, an AI coworker, and the small devices that keep it all recoverable.

  1. 01My Homelab: One Proxmox Box, ZFS Pools, and a Properly Segmented Network
  2. 02The Fleet: Six Machines, and What the Hypervisor Can't Do
  3. 03An AI Coworker in an LXC Container
  4. 04Waking the Lab: an ESP32, MQTT, and 102 Bytes
  5. + 1 more