June 22, 2026
A 19th-century plant-nutrition principle — the law of the minimum — is the same idea as the bottleneck in a distributed system. One limiting factor caps the whole. A bridge between my planted aquariums and my Kubernetes homelab, including why it isn't actually Liebig's law.
June 20, 2026
I delegated a CI migration — GitHub Actions to Argo Workflows, GitHub to Codeberg — to an AI agent. It rewrote the logic 1:1 and passed lint, but left six latent bugs because nobody ran it end-to-end. This is the debugging saga, including the missing newline that cost me hours of chasing a phantom CNI problem.
June 19, 2026
A real incident postmortem from my Hetzner k3s cluster: how the default SQLite/kine datastore hit a compaction death-spiral under an overgrown homelab, how I put out the fire, and why I migrated the control plane to embedded etcd.
June 12, 2026
How I replaced git checkout with wt - a worktree manager that gives every branch its own directory, auto-navigates your shell, and makes parallel work on multiple branches feel like switching windows.
June 11, 2026
How I turned tmux into a self-organizing workspace with sesh - named sessions, auto-launched tools, and one-keystroke switching across every project. Fully declarative via NixOS Home Manager.
May 10, 2026
How I replaced the GitHub web UI with gh CLI and gh-dash - a TUI dashboard that puts PRs, issues, and AI-powered code review one keypress away. Fully declarative via NixOS Home Manager.
May 3, 2026
A deep dive into KWOK (Kubernetes WithOut Kubelet) – the CNCF tool that lets you simulate thousands of nodes and pods in seconds. Learn how it works, when to use it, and how to integrate it into your testing and CI/CD workflows.
April 17, 2026
A comprehensive technical guide and philosophy behind building a secure, automated, and production-ready Kubernetes cluster on Hetzner Cloud using Terraform, Ansible, and Tailscale.
April 17, 2026
A guide to building a robust, scalable, and future-proof note-taking system using Obsidian, Neovim, and Markdown, optimized for thinking over time.
February 7, 2026
A deep dive into integrating Home Assistant's MQTT data with a high-performance data stack (EMQX, InfluxDB, Grafana) running on a k3d Kubernetes cluster for long-term storage and advanced analytics.
January 29, 2026
How I use Nix, Nix Flakes, and Home Manager to create fully reproducible and declarative configurations for my NixOS and macOS systems.
January 18, 2026
How to bootstrap a GitOps workflow with ArgoCD, Sealed Secrets, and External Secrets Operator. Includes Azure Key Vault integration for enterprise-grade secrets management.
January 17, 2026
Based on community feedback, the homelab project now supports both Podman and Docker Desktop. Here's how to choose and switch between them.
January 15, 2026
How to build a portable, cloud-native Kubernetes environment on macOS using Podman and k3d. Includes NFS storage, Tailscale networking, and architecture decisions explained.
January 5, 2026
A personal take on the aquarium hobby as a DIY survival strategy, detailing the creation of HydroSense, an open-source IoT system for smart aquarium control, starting from old hardware to a full-fledged project roadmap.
October 28, 2025
Exploring the intricate balance within planted aquariums, from the Redfield Ratio to modern monitoring technology, and how this microcosm teaches profound lessons about nature, technology, and sustainability.
October 20, 2025
A personal reflection on connecting professional life in technology (DevOps, Kubernetes) with a passion for aquariums, highlighting similarities in monitoring, automation, and stability.