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2026 6 entries
- The lock I added and reverted four minutes later A run lock for a scheduled agent was keyed on a live process. It went in at 09:12 and came out at 09:16, because on that box the process never dies.
- Killing Infisical, Building My Own Secret Store I ran my secrets through Infisical for a year, then replaced it with a 300-line Node/Express daemon in an Alpine LXC — AES-256-GCM, an MCP interface, and the realization that a secret manager is just a tiny API.
- Lab Census, Mid-2026: Eleven Containers and One Empty Chair A headcount of everything running on the Proxmox cluster right now — taken live from `pct list` — including the container that quietly replaced Pi-hole while nobody was looking.
- Giving My AI Agents a Shared Brain (Self-Hosted, Third Attempt) How my Claude Code and Antigravity sessions ended up sharing one long-term memory — a self-hosted Hindsight instance on a Proxmox LXC — after two failed prototypes.
- 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 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.