Restore Over Backup
You don't have backups. You have hope. A green job status means nothing until you've tested a full restore.
Writing
Notes on software, infrastructure, and learning by doing.
Hello World: First Post
The first post on my engineering blog. Testing the new posts system.
Homelab
Three nodes, ~30 services, everything as code. How a personal Proxmox cluster became my best environment for practicing production-grade discipline.
The Accident That Fixed My Homelab
A routine update bricked my server. Five days of manual recovery taught me what no DevOps handbook could.
If It's Not Code, It Doesn't Exist
Undocumented infrastructure isn't infrastructure. It's an accident waiting to be discovered.
Good Tooling Comes from Real Pain
The best tools aren't pet projects. They're what you build after the third time you fat-finger a config.