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Blast Radius: Why Infrastructure Teams Build Tools
Infrastructure teams build tools because their blast radius is enormous. When your work touches every application in the organization, the leverage of a good tool (or the damage of a bad one) scales differently than it does for an application team.
Work From Home Ergonomics: The Office I've Built Over Time
I didn't build my home office all at once. It evolved piece by piece over a few years, driven by actual pain points rather than aspirational Pinterest boards. Here's what I'm running, what I'd buy again, and what I'm still evaluating.
The Homelab as Creative Outlet: Why I Keep Building Things Nobody Asked For
The homelab isn't about saving money on cloud hosting. It's about having a space where I can build, break, and iterate without a ticket, a timeline, or a stakeholder.
Palworld 1.0 Dedicated Server: A Docker Homelab Build on Ubuntu 26
Palworld hit 1.0 this week and I wanted back in. A Proxmox VM, an Ubuntu 26 template, Docker Compose, and about an hour of troubleshooting DNS quirks later, I had a dedicated server running in the basement.