Notes from the systems work.
Short, practical notes on infrastructure, Kubernetes, Linux, networking, and automation: what I built, what broke, what I changed, and the tradeoffs along the way.
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What I Want From a Weekly Server Health Report
The weekly email I built to remind me about the things I actually need to take care of on my server.
How I Think About Container Updates on Stateful Services
A practical update policy for a home server: fresh where safe, supervised where state and migrations are involved.
Two Disks, Durable Data and Disposable Media
How I separate important application data from media and caches that can be recreated.
Sharing Keyboard, Mouse, Clipboard, and Files Between macOS and Omarchy
After trying several KVM-style tools, I ended up splitting the job between Lan Mouse and KDE Connect.
Designing a Server for Recovery, Not Preservation
Why I treat the operating system as disposable and focus on recovering services instead of preserving a disk.
Why I Keep a Terminal Cheatsheet
A small reference that keeps me from searching my own shell history every time I forget an alias or shortcut.
Keeping My macOS and Omarchy Setup in Git
Why I stopped rebuilding computers from memory and started treating my workstation setup like any other project.
What Start Blue Taught Me About Building a Dealer Quote Platform
Looking back at building and running a Kubernetes-hosted quote platform used by more than 350 dealers across North America.
Synergy 1 + Waynergy on Omarchy Arch Linux (Hyprland Wayland Setup)
How I finally got Synergy 1 working on macOS (server) and Arch Linux Hyprland (client) using Waynergy, including keyboard fix, Mac QWERTY keymap, autostart, and manual launch setup.
Archived Arch and Omarchy Dual-Boot Setup Notes
Archived notes from a manual Arch Linux dual-boot setup using Limine, Omarchy, autologin, and VFIO.
Always Learning: Building My PC and Fixing a DRAM Training Issue
Fixing a DRAM Training Issue on B650
Arch Linux Setup with VFIO GPU Passthrough
Using AMD iGPU for Host + NVIDIA RTX 4090 for VM (VFIO)
Fedora 42 Workstation with Hyprland & VFIO
A setup guide for a Linux workstation with Hyprland, KVM GPU passthrough, and Looking Glass.
Cheatsheet: Nmap Commands
Nmap scan cmd for discovery, enumeration, firewall detection, etc
FortiGate - Setup and Config notes
Guid with some common configuration that i used, CLI and security best practices for fortigate firewalls
Cheatsheet: SQL
SQL reference guide covering SELECTs, INSERTs, UPDATEs, JOINs, etc
Cheatsheet: Docker CLI
my essential Docker CLI commands
Cheatsheet: Kubernetes with Talos Linux
A practical kubectl command reference tailored for Talos Linux environments.
Cleaning Fedora Workstation
cleaning and maintaining my Fedora Workstation
Cheatsheet: Cisco Networking Commands
A collection of useful Cisco IOS CLI commands for secure network administration.
Welcome
An introduction to my public notes on software, infrastructure, operations, and the tools I use.
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Hardware
Homelab
What I Want From a Weekly Server Health Report
The weekly email I built to remind me about the things I actually need to take care of on my server.
How I Think About Container Updates on Stateful Services
A practical update policy for a home server: fresh where safe, supervised where state and migrations are involved.
Two Disks, Durable Data and Disposable Media
How I separate important application data from media and caches that can be recreated.
Designing a Server for Recovery, Not Preservation
Why I treat the operating system as disposable and focus on recovering services instead of preserving a disk.
Kubernetes
Linux
Synergy 1 + Waynergy on Omarchy Arch Linux (Hyprland Wayland Setup)
How I finally got Synergy 1 working on macOS (server) and Arch Linux Hyprland (client) using Waynergy, including keyboard fix, Mac QWERTY keymap, autostart, and manual launch setup.
Archived Arch and Omarchy Dual-Boot Setup Notes
Archived notes from a manual Arch Linux dual-boot setup using Limine, Omarchy, autologin, and VFIO.
Arch Linux Setup with VFIO GPU Passthrough
Using AMD iGPU for Host + NVIDIA RTX 4090 for VM (VFIO)
Fedora 42 Workstation with Hyprland & VFIO
A setup guide for a Linux workstation with Hyprland, KVM GPU passthrough, and Looking Glass.
Cleaning Fedora Workstation
cleaning and maintaining my Fedora Workstation
Networking
Cheatsheet: Nmap Commands
Nmap scan cmd for discovery, enumeration, firewall detection, etc
FortiGate - Setup and Config notes
Guid with some common configuration that i used, CLI and security best practices for fortigate firewalls
Cheatsheet: Cisco Networking Commands
A collection of useful Cisco IOS CLI commands for secure network administration.
Workstation
Sharing Keyboard, Mouse, Clipboard, and Files Between macOS and Omarchy
After trying several KVM-style tools, I ended up splitting the job between Lan Mouse and KDE Connect.
Why I Keep a Terminal Cheatsheet
A small reference that keeps me from searching my own shell history every time I forget an alias or shortcut.
Keeping My macOS and Omarchy Setup in Git
Why I stopped rebuilding computers from memory and started treating my workstation setup like any other project.
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