Thoughts & insights.

The daemon that failed by doing nothing

My Proxmox backups had been failing silently for ten days. Not failing, actually. Not running at all, and nothing alerted on it.

The eight login forms I deleted

For a while every self-hosted service in my homelab had its own login form. Eight services, eight password prompts, eight places a weak password could hide. That is not security, it is friction pretending to be security.

The 333 GB I didn't know I was keeping