Incident

I Let an AI Re-Platform My CI Pipeline. Here's What Broke.

I Let an AI Re-Platform My CI Pipeline. Here's What Broke.

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.

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When Your Homelab Grows Up: How SQLite Took Down My k3s Control Plane

When Your Homelab Grows Up: How SQLite Took Down My k3s Control Plane

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.

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