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31 Jul 2026 6 min read

The Website Was New. The CSS Was Four Months Old.

A production site passed its build, origin, route, header, and preview checks—then looked broken on mobile because immutable CDN caching preserved the previous stylesheet.

  • Cloudflare
  • CDN
  • Caching
  • Jekyll
  • Docker
  • Debugging
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19 Jul 2026 7 min read

What Actually Runs in the Home Lab

A curated inventory of the services behind 76 running containers—what each group does, why it exists, and which pieces are temporary.

  • Docker
  • Self-hosting
  • Services
  • Observability
  • Home Lab
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19 Jul 2026 6 min read

Why the Lab Is Boring on Purpose

The design choices behind a two-host Docker home lab: leaving Kubernetes, centralizing ingress, separating state, treating sockets as root, and applying before committing.

  • Docker
  • Design
  • GitOps
  • HAProxy
  • PostgreSQL
  • Security
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19 Jul 2026 6 min read

Prometheus on NFS: Healthy Until It Wasn't

A network filesystem stall blocked shutdown, corrupted the Prometheus WAL, and demonstrated why a green health check is not a storage architecture.

  • Prometheus
  • NFS
  • Docker
  • Observability
  • Storage
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Packets & Regrets

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