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Sky Feather Hijacked My Homelab IaC
2026-06-022026-06-022990 words 15 mins

Sky Feather Hijacked My Homelab IaC

A public-safe homelab GitOps story about Terraform, Ansible, Proxmox, private Gitea, GitHub pull requests, and an AI agent proposing infrastructure changes safely.
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Queue Reminiscence: Testing Agent-Worker Rails with a Queue Board
2026-06-192026-06-192741 words 13 mins

Queue Reminiscence: Testing Agent-Worker Rails with a Queue Board

A real arcade queue-board MVP became the test fixture for a Hermes worker-fleet experiment: Discord-only control, VM coding workers, PR-sized lanes, and the operating policy that kept the drones useful.
My dashboard invented 7,694 requests an hour
2026-10-172026-10-171502 words 8 mins

My dashboard invented 7,694 requests an hour

Why Prometheus reported traffic that never happened when it scraped a load-balanced k3s Deployment, how per-pod NodePorts with externalTrafficPolicy Local fixed it, and how frp PROXY protocol brought back real cabinet IPs.
Migrating my arcade server to k3s, Part 3
2026-10-172026-10-17944 words 5 mins

Migrating my arcade server to k3s, Part 3

Part 3 of running Sumeragi on k3s: Renovate for a public GitHub release, AcidPR for in-house CI images, and one policy file that decides what may be promoted where.
Migrating my arcade server to k3s, Part 2
2026-10-172026-10-171116 words 6 mins

Migrating my arcade server to k3s, Part 2

Part 2 of running Sumeragi on k3s: new bare-metal Proxmox hosts, a VXLAN outage caused by one firewall IPSet, three k3s servers with embedded etcd and kube-vip, and the kill test.
Migrating my arcade server to k3s, Part 1
2026-10-172026-10-172736 words 13 mins

Migrating my arcade server to k3s, Part 1

Part 1 of moving Sumeragi, a raw-TCP SEGA ALL.Net/AimeDB arcade backend, from Docker Compose to k3s and Argo CD on a self-hosted Proxmox homelab: graceful drain, the cluster, the cutover, and the GitOps repo that runs it.
I Tested Cursor CLI and Qwen as Coding Workers for Hermes
2026-06-122026-06-122548 words 12 mins

I Tested Cursor CLI and Qwen as Coding Workers for Hermes

A small Hermes routing experiment comparing pure GPT-5.5, a Cursor CLI VM, and a Qwen worker through LiteLLM. The tiny-task result was boring; the worker-pool question was not.
Three Repos, One Heatmap: Sanitized Git Activity on umi4.life
2026-06-082026-06-081333 words 7 mins

Three Repos, One Heatmap: Sanitized Git Activity on umi4.life

How I built a GitHub-style activity heatmap for umi4.life that merges public GitHub and private Gitea counts without leaking repository metadata, using a Proxmox LXC exporter, systemd timer, and cross-repo GitHub Actions.
Reducing GPT Vision Calls with a Fail-Closed Gemma Router
2026-06-052026-06-056688 words 32 mins

Reducing GPT Vision Calls with a Fail-Closed Gemma Router

A Hermes vision-routing experiment using local Gemma through LiteLLM as a first-pass image triage layer, with GPT/Codex escalation for empty, OCR-heavy, or risky cases.
Hermes NAS Storage for Documentation Assets
2026-06-042026-06-041001 words 5 mins

Hermes NAS Storage for Documentation Assets

Mounting a TrueNAS dataset over NFS so Hermes can store blog and documentation media without filling the VM disk.