#DevOps | Build Log

2026.07.21 dns wedge expired key One expired key took down external DNS for 18 containers, and it looked like an app bug the whole time. It surfaced as Phish setli… #Homelab#Docker#DevOps 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