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Business-driven Development

Mar 6 · 8 min read · What if your multi-tenant application could be shipped as a distributed SaaS? What if you could have a licensed version of your product as an installable on some corner of the internet? What if we cou

Owning Your Infrastructure

Oct 31, 2025 · 2 min read · I have self-hosted a number of things so far , including photos, office, docker registry and chat applications for mine and my own use. This piece is a reflection on that journey, partly inspired by a recent incident where a user was banned from GitH...

Keeping the Homelab Alive

Jun 30, 2025 · 4 min read · One of the challenges that comes from getting yourself an enterprise minicomputer is the configuration set by the selling company. For my case, it was the BIOS lock - a toggle that inhibited my ability to have continuous uptime. For this specific ser...

Home labbing - The start of an adventure

Jun 9, 2025 · 2 min read · My recent work on Scale Computing and Opennebula has piqued my interest in home lab environments. I decided to take a peek and got myself a HP G2 800 minicomputer for play.This , along with a number of smart devices to really push the limits of what ...

The 20% that makes all the difference

Aug 25, 2024 · 4 min read · “And I took the road less travelled. And that made all the difference.” Time management is something I find myself working through every once in a while whether it involves writing down weekly items to check off and crossing 2 of the twenty, crossin...