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One Binary, One Box
Jun 2026·Single Go binary setup for one small EC2 box: host routing, OAuth cookies, on-demand TLS, and deploys by copy and restart.
A Home for AI Artifacts: The Platform We Built So Nothing Leaves the Company
Jun 2026·AI-generated artifacts need durable, authenticated URLs. Here is how an internal platform turns assistant output into links that do not expire.
Open-weights LLM evaluation for self-hosted use
Jun 2026·Self-hosted LLM evaluation needs real prompts, latency budgets, and memory checks before swapping open-weights models.
The relationship between feedback culture and shipping velocity on AI product teams
Jun 2026·Bad AI answers hide in fluent drafts. AI feedback culture turns flags, traces, and edits into evals before the next release.
Trusting a home server: a local model, monitoring, and backups
Jun 2026·How I set up home server monitoring with Gatus, Uptime Kuma, and Beszel, ran a local LLM for private data, and built nightly rsync backups I actually test.
Making a home server usable with one dashboard
Jun 2026·How a self-hosted dashboard called Glance turned a pile of containers into something a whole household uses from a single browser tab.
Building a self-hosted media stack (and what I deleted)
Jun 2026·Running a self-hosted media stack is more integration work than install. Here is how I wired Jellyfin, Sonarr, Radarr and friends, and what I deleted.
Running background jobs on macOS with launchd
Jun 2026·How to run launchd scheduled jobs on macOS: plist patterns, Full Disk Access pitfalls, and the C launcher trick that survives every redeploy.
How I reach a home server with no public address
Jun 2026·No open ports, no public IP, but real hostnames and a trusted TLS cert. Here is how Tailscale, DNS-01, and Caddy make it work.
Why my home server runs on a spare MacBook
Jun 2026·Running a MacBook home server on spare Apple Silicon? See how Tailscale, Caddy, and OrbStack power 25 self-hosted services with no public IP.