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2026 4 entries
- Shipping to the Living Room: When the Hard Part Is the Internet Deploying our GPU video app to a teammate's home box took an afternoon. Getting it onto the public internet — past CGNAT, two modems fighting over one IP, and a Viettel router with a genuine firmware bug — took the rest of the day.
- The PC I Didn't Buy A few days of hardware research, one month's salary saved, and the realization that the machine was never the point.
- The GPON Stick Experiment: One Less Box, One Very Hot Dongle I tried to replace my ISP's ONU box with a Huawei MA5671A SFP stick in the MikroTik. It worked. Then it hit 80°C.
- The Lab Levels Up: Protected Power and Production Apps Going from a pile of parts to a protected, high-speed ecosystem running Pi-hole, Immich, and Firefly III.