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Notes on servers, networks, automation, and whatever else.
- Life After Squeezing a Dozen Servers into One Compose FileFrom a pile of ad-hoc scripts to declarative orchestration: tidying my homelab, and why "boring" is the highest compliment for infrastructure.
- Three Ways to Automate TLS RenewalDNS-01 or HTTP-01? How to manage wildcard certs? A post-mortem of one certificate incident and a comparison of automation setups.
- My DNS Configuration ChecklistHow many records hide behind a single domain: from apex flattening to DNSSEC, understanding every field.
- Alerting Rules I Owe My Future SelfToo many alerts are the same as none. How I tamed a dozen services down to only the alerts worth reading.
- A Year After Fleeing WordPress for Static SitesWhy I left, how I migrated, what I lost and what I gained. Plus a checklist for whoever comes next.