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Where my secrets live, and what the repo gets instead

Where my secrets live, what the repository carries instead, and why rotating a committed secret matters more than deleting the file.

Oct 15, 2026·4 min read

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Every request to my site redirected to itself

Every request to my site redirected to itself. Nothing was down: a proxy redirect meant for browsers met a tunnel that had already terminated TLS, and the two looped.

Oct 12, 2026·Homelab recovery·4 min

What the Proxmox command line does that the web UI hides

pct and qm do everything the Proxmox web UI does, plus the things it never shows you. Batch operations, hidden config keys, and guests defined in git.

Oct 8, 2026·Homelab recovery·5 min

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My monitoring stack costs nothing a month and tells me more than the paid tier did

Every host, container, VM, array and backup watched for nothing a month. What is in the stack, why it beats the free tiers, and the costs that are not money.

Oct 5, 2026·Homelab recovery·7 min

Thoughts & insights.

Where my secrets live, and what the repo gets instead

Every request to my site redirected to itself

What the Proxmox command line does that the web UI hides

My monitoring stack costs nothing a month and tells me more than the paid tier did

Proxmox still flags btrfs as a technology preview, and I guessed wrong about why

iLO 3 in 2026: the complete quirks catalog

I powered down a node on purpose. Ninety seconds later its workload was serving again.

The cluster joined fine. Its heartbeat was on the wrong network.

The boring naming decision that unlocks cluster replication

A sub-100-dollar ZFS data tier from a used office PC