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Six Posts a Day, and the Scheduler That Learned to Say When
A social pipeline that published one Reel a day and nothing else, because per-format quotas were ceilings and nothing was asking for the other formats.
Seconds of Work, Hours of Residency
My morning briefing started failing. Ollama was up and returned HTTP 500, because a 21-second image render was still holding 6.6 GB of VRAM hours later.
The Alert That Named a Thing and Called It Evidence
Five high-severity alerts from my own monitoring. All five were the same defect: a record that names something being read as an observation of a property it never measured.
A Write Loop That Never Merges Anything
My homelab brain noticed problems and did nothing about them. Closing the loop meant four human gates and an executor whose defining feature is that it stops at a draft PR.
The Journal That Writes Itself
Every morning my homelab turns its own event log into a written summary and posts it to my notes app. The interesting part is what it does when it cannot tell whether it already did.
Upgrading Production DNS by Never Touching the Live Node
Two Pi-holes, a floating IP, and a major-version upgrade on the box that resolves everything in the house. The trick is that the safe procedure and the risky procedure look identical from the outside.
The Outage Was Never the Thing I Was Debugging
A homelab-wide outage at 01:45. I blamed the reverse proxy, then the IPS, then the SSO layer. The root cause was a network port down at the switch — everything I suspected was a symptom.
Homelab Notes: Running Services Behind Traefik
My current homelab setup, why I moved off nginx-proxy, and what broke along the way.