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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.
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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.
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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.
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.
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.
Untangling the Homelab After a Hermes Dashboard Setup Went Sideways
2026-06-032026-06-031886 words 9 mins

Untangling the Homelab After a Hermes Dashboard Setup Went Sideways

A homelab incident story: setting up Hermes Dashboard exposed old routing and auth tech debt, broke Traefik and Authelia OIDC assumptions, and ended with a cleaner LiteLLM public API plus private admin workflow.
Self Host Eamusement Server
2026-05-302026-05-301377 words 7 mins

Self Host Eamusement Server

Rebuilding, refactoring and hosting bemani server
WireGuard Network Setup
2026-04-192026-04-191038 words 5 mins

WireGuard Network Setup

Self-hosted WireGuard VPN on a Vultr VPS with Proxmox subnet routing — a scalable alternative to Tailscale for sharing homelab access with friends.
Building a Proxmox Homelab
2026-04-042026-04-042436 words 12 mins

Building a Proxmox Homelab

A homelab build diary: Proxmox VE on bare metal, TrueNAS storage, Docker consolidation, Traefik, AdGuard, Tailscale, and Cloudflare Tunnel for self-hosted services.