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2026

Running a Local LLM on Homelab OpenShift, Part 1: The GPU Driver Struggle

June 20, 2026·964 words·5 mins

Trading the Grafana stack for VictoriaMetrics on OpenShift

June 15, 2026·780 words·4 mins

Building a Stateful Human-in-the-Loop Slack Approval Gateway for Homelab AI Agents

June 15, 2026·1574 words·8 mins

When your object store eats its own metadata: moving Loki/Mimir/Tempo to plain NFS

June 14, 2026·1104 words·6 mins

The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: Lessons from an AI-Assisted Infrastructure Failure

June 4, 2026·1989 words·10 mins

The Hidden Cost of AI GPUs: Why I Settled on an NVIDIA A2

May 30, 2026·1898 words·9 mins

Beyond Monitoring: Building an Open Observability Platform with LGTMA

May 30, 2026·1294 words·7 mins

Building a Secure NGINX Reverse Proxy with Automated Internal TLS Certificate Renewal

May 27, 2026·914 words·5 mins

Installing OKD 4.22 Single-Node on Bare Metal: A Homelab Guide That Actually Works

May 20, 2026·2222 words·11 mins

Adding a Worker Node to Single-Node OpenShift (SNO)

May 17, 2026·644 words·4 mins

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