Practical solutions and technical deep dives
A dedicated Ansible role for self-hosted photo and video backups
Eliminating homelab dependency with CDN-backed hosting
Moving web traffic from homelab VM to Netlify-hosted static site
Another disk failure on the mergerfs pool — resolved without data loss
Debugging blank pages behind a Caddy reverse proxy chain
Direct physical disk attachment to VMs for dedicated storage and recovery
Why a prebuilt NAS became a liability and how I migrated away from it
Step-by-step automated photo backup updates with Ansible
Recovering a family media server after an accidental domain removal
From Bedrock to Java — finding the best Minecraft server experience
Automated role testing against real Proxmox VMs, not containers
Automating Hugo builds across multiple sites with nested loop patterns
Building a reliable infrastructure source of truth from scratch