Infrastructure
Rebuilding a cluster that sleeps
Three nodes where only one stays awake. The always-on node carries quorum outright; the other two wake on demand for heavy work and shut themselves down when idle.
- Proxmox
- Wake-on-LAN
- corosync
whoami
I keep things alive — people during surgery, machines in a rack.
Anesthesia is the job. The rest of the time I'm usually elbow-deep in a homelab, reading documentation I didn't need to read, or building something small that solves a problem only I have.
Both halves turn out to be the same work: watch something carefully, notice when it drifts, fix it before it becomes a story.
what I'm doing
Currently in progress
Network
Running my own DNS
Two filtering resolvers kept in sync, each with its own recursive backend, so the house keeps resolving names even when the interesting hardware is powered down.
- AdGuard Home
- Unbound
- Tailscale
Inference
Keeping the models at home
A mini PC with more memory than sense, serving local language models across the network with tool support wired in. No API bill, nothing leaving the house.
- LM Studio
- MCP
- Ryzen
Creative
Learning to talk to a camera
A channel in early development — long-form talking over gameplay, which is either a format or an excuse depending on the day. Mostly an exercise in finishing things.
- sonicdevo
- in progress
Storage
Building backups I trust
An unreasonably thorough cost comparison of every archival medium available, ending where these things usually end: tape is still the answer, and the drive is the expensive part.
- LTO
- 3-2-1
what I'm reading
The shelf, honestly reported
Pulled straight off my Goodreads shelves, so it's current whether or not it's flattering.
- Now Book title
- Want to read Book title
what holds it together
Truly, truly, I say to you, before Abraham was, I am.
John 8:58 · ESV
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