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Three Days In: The Post-Migration Trenches of a Self-Hosted k3s Cluster

Apr 26 · 8 min read · I shipped two retrospectives in the last week. The first was moving 47 apps off Vercel onto a self-hosted Coolify cluster. The second was tearing that down nine days later and rebuilding on k3s. Both ended with the line every infra retrospective ends...

From Click-Ops to GitOps: Rebuilding the Afrotomation Fleet on k3s

Apr 24 · 13 min read · Nine days ago I wrote a retrospective about migrating 47 apps from Vercel to Coolify. I was proud of that sprint. Then I went to live with the result. By the evening of April 23, 2026, I was back in front of a terminal typing this: "I have migrated ...

47 Apps, One Week: Migrating the Afrotomation Fleet Off Vercel

Apr 14 · 10 min read · At 05:01 UTC on April 14, 2026, I typed one sentence into a fresh Claude session: "I just created a Coolify cluster with 3 servers — 1 Oracle VPS and 2 Contabo VPS. I need your help pulling all my deployed apps from Vercel and dockerizing them and d...

AI Automation for Small Businesses: 2026 Guide

Apr 1 · 10 min read · AI automation for small businesses isn't about replacing your team with robots. It's about eliminating the repetitive tasks that waste 4-6 hours of your employees' time every day. I've built automation systems for 50+ small businesses over the past t...

From Chaos to Command: How My AI Agent Team Migrated to Paperclip

Mar 29 · 6 min read · Running eight AI agents on a single Oracle Cloud ARM64 server sounds like a recipe for chaos. For a while, it was. But today, they're all orchestrated through Paperclip — an open-source agent management platform — running as a Docker Swarm service on...