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Homelab recovery · October 2026
5 posts

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

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.

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.