I went on a trip. My Mac mini stayed home and kept texting me.
I left town for a few days. The Mac mini stayed back, ran on its own, took orders from my phone, and pinged me about everything. This is what that felt like.
Building vaultctl: the password vault where my own server can't read your passwords
A self-hosted, zero-knowledge password vault. One Go binary, three clients, one constraint that quietly shaped every other decision in the codebase.
Pointing vinelabs.de at my Mac mini through a Cloudflare Tunnel
I had a domain. I had a homelab. A Cloudflare Tunnel was the simplest way to make them point at each other, without opening a single port on my home router.
My Raspberry Pi could not carry the dream. A 2018 Mac mini could.
I wanted a small army of agents running 24x7 and a place to host all my homelab apps. The Pi was never going to do it. A colleague handed me his 2018 Mac mini and the whole thing took shape in one sitting.
Cross-Posting My Blog to dev.to and Hashnode: What I Got Wrong
I figured cross-posting my Astro blog to dev.to and Hashnode would take an afternoon. It turned into four PRs, three failure modes, and a few API surprises.
Setting Up a MinIO CDN with Nginx Reverse Proxy on Docker
A practical walkthrough for self-hosting an S3-compatible CDN with MinIO, Docker Compose, and Nginx - including the small config bits everyone seems to miss until presigned URLs start failing.