The longer version: build logs, post-mortems, and the reasoning behind decisions that are too detailed for a guide. Written by someone who operates these systems daily.
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Integrating two enterprise systems is not about making HTTP requests — it's about handling the moment when one system believes something happened and the other has no idea. Idempotency, failure routing, reconciliation and recovery.
Having run LANs in campus hostels, at my own place, and alongside other organisers, these are the five things I keep coming back to when I plan the next one.
Three pairs of headphones, three very different jobs. Why a pair of wired IEMs ends up doing nearly everything at my desk, while a wireless gaming headset and a pair of AirPods each kept one specific job.
A love letter to Immich, the open-source, self-hosted photo and video platform. Why it earned a permanent place in my homelab, and why I keep recommending it.
Why I close the laptop and draw the system when it gets too complicated to hold in my head — and why distributed systems are a timeline problem wearing a box problem.
Anakin taught me to be capable, Vader taught me not to wait for rescue — and both taught me that trust without verification is not engineering.
A confession about homelabs: 10 TB nobody asked for, RAID that isn't a backup, a laptop consumed by local AI, a Kubernetes cluster for three containers — and why I still do it anyway.
A 12 inch sub, two random speakers and a 1,500 bob Chinese amp went blow for blow with a brand new Sony home theatre.
Build logs, post-mortems and architecture notes.
From PC hardware to distributed systems.
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The blog is the long version. The 8guides answer specific questions directly — what to buy, what to upgrade, whether a tool is worth it.
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