Kube Manager: Building a Personal PaaS for My Homelab
Building my own Kubernetes deployment platform driven by Git webhooks to simplify deploying all my side projects, and what I learned about AI-assisted development along the way.
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Thoughts, tutorials, and explorations in tech, development, and homelab projects.
Battle of the Brains: A One‑Evening Jackbox‑Style Math Game
Building a Jackbox-style math party game in one evening for my kids, using Vite, TypeScript, and a reused WebSocket backend.
Read more →Reviving a Godot Multiplayer Prototype with a Real Backend
Taking a tutorial-based Godot multiplayer game and reshaping it around a real backend, with deployment and scaling constraints in mind.
Read more →How I Bulk Removed Roblox Friends with Browser Developer Tools
A practical walkthrough of using browser developer tools and ChatGPT to script bulk Roblox friend removal.
Read more →Grafana, Alloy, Loki, and Tempo for Shopify Oxygen Log & Trace Ingestion
A self-hosted solution for ingesting and visualizing Shopify Oxygen worker logs and traces using the Grafana ecosystem.
Read more →Migrating from SQLite to PostgreSQL Without an ORM: A Humbling Experience
What I learned migrating two Rust apps from SQLite to PostgreSQL without an ORM and why ORMs save you from so much pain.
Read more →Automating Proxmox Host Restarts with Gitea Actions
Building a fully automated workflow to safely restart Proxmox hosts while maintaining Kubernetes cluster availability and the journey of fixing everything that broke along the way.
Read more →Solving Docker Registry Authentication for Gitea Actions Runners
The journey from manual workflows to automated Docker authentication for self-hosted Gitea Actions runners in Kubernetes, and why imagePullSecrets don't solve everything.
Read more →Migrating from Bitnami PostgreSQL to CloudNativePG
How I migrated my homelab PostgreSQL databases from Bitnami to CloudNativePG after Broadcom paywalled their Bitnami images.
Read more →High Availability Control Plane using Talos VIP
Adding a Virtual IP to Talos Kubernetes for resilient control plane access
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