#DevOps | Build Log

2026.07.05 nixos native linux migration Rebuilt my workspace machine on NixOS today. Wanted native Linux instead of juggling WSL or fighting macOS quirks, and I wanted th… #Shipped#Linux#DevOps#ClaudeCode 2026.03.28 how the stack works People ask how The Stack works. Here is the full breakdown. What it is: A microblog built with Astro. No CMS, no database, no admi… #Shipped#Astro#DevOps 2026.03.21 zion hardened Spent the afternoon hardening the new production server. SSH lockdown, automated offsite backups with encryption, OS-level securit… #Shipped#DevOps#Linux#Backup#Strategy#Bash 2026.03.17 hetzner zion Also tonight: spun up a new production server on Hetzner. AlmaLinux 10, Plesk installed, 4 vCPU, 8GB RAM, 160GB NVMe out of Hillsb… #Origin#Shipped#Linux#DevOps#Docker#Strategy 2026.03.17 mill staging Tonight we finished staging gotothemill.com. Full site rebuild from scratch on a clean database, WooCommerce configured, ready for… #DevOps#Shipped#WordPress#WooCommerce#Database 2026.03.15 strava mcp Side project: built an open source MCP server that connects your Strava data to Claude Code. Ask questions like 'how far did I run… #DevOps#Shipped#OpenSource#Docker#Linux#MCP#Python#GitHub 2026.03.15 backup audit Ran a full backup audit today. Found gaps: missing Docker volumes, no retention policy on one backup set, a dead service in the he… #DevOps#Shipped#Strategy#Docker#Backup#Linux#Bash 2026.03.14 the stack site Built this site today. The Stack is a microblog for documenting what we ship. Static Astro site, dark theme, tag filtering, RSS fe… #DevOps#Shipped#Astro 2026.03.12 mcp layer Started building MCP servers to connect our infrastructure directly to Claude Code. Model Context Protocol turns any API into a to… #DevOps#Shipped#MCP#Python#Docker#GitHub 2026.03.08 model arena Shipped Model Arena, a tool for comparing language model outputs side by side. Send the same prompt to multiple models, see the re… #DevOps#Shipped#Python#Docker#GitHub 2026.03.07 phantom paste Built Phantom Paste, a zero-knowledge pastebin. Written in Go, stores everything in SQLite, encrypts client-side. The server never… #DevOps#Shipped#Go#SQLite#Docker#GitHub 2026.03.01 n8n automation Deployed n8n as our automation engine. Visual workflow builder, webhook triggers, hundreds of integrations. Connect APIs, move dat… #DevOps#Docker#Linux#Shipped 2026.02.22 litellm gateway Added LiteLLM as an API gateway in front of all our language models. One endpoint, multiple providers. Route requests to local Oll… #DevOps#Docker#Python#Linux 2026.02.15 ollama local llm Started running large language models locally with Ollama. No API costs, no data leaving the network. Pull a model, run it, done.… #DevOps#Docker#Linux 2026.02.07 uptime kuma Deployed Uptime Kuma to monitor every service. If a container goes down, we know within 60 seconds. Dashboard shows uptime history… #DevOps#Docker#Linux 2026.02.05 tailscale mesh Connected everything with Tailscale. The server, the NAS, the workstation, the phone. Encrypted mesh network, no port forwarding,… #DevOps#Linux#Docker 2026.02.01 caddy proxy Put Caddy in front of everything as the reverse proxy. Automatic TLS certificates, clean subdomain routing, zero manual cert manag… #DevOps#Docker#Linux 2026.01.25 docker everything Every service gets its own Docker Compose stack. Isolated networks, named volumes, environment files. No package conflicts, no dep… #DevOps#Docker#Linux 2026.01.18 nas storage Added a Synology NAS as the storage layer. Backups, media, shared volumes. The server handles compute, the NAS handles data. Two m… #DevOps#Linux#Backup 2026.01.11 linux server Set up a dedicated Ubuntu server as the backbone for everything we build. One box, clean install, SSH access, nothing else. Every… #DevOps#Linux#Docker