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Wie Is Wie: Watching Two AIs Debug a Network I Broke on Purpose

There is a children’s game in the Netherlands called Wie is Wie — the Dutch version of Guess Who. You sit across from your opponent with a board of cartoon faces.

Authentik Proxy Outpost on Kubernetes: The Parts Nobody Documents

April 2026 — Every Authentik tutorial covers OIDC. Here’s what to do when the app has no OIDC support at all. I run Authentik as my SSO provider on a self-hosted RKE2 cluster.

Meten is Weten: How Installing Plausible on My Hugo Blog Led to a Three-Node BGP ECMP Varnish DaemonSet

It started with a single, innocent question: does anyone actually read this? I’d been running this Hugo blog for a while, writing posts about the homelab, the cluster, the occasionally catastrophic self-inflicted incidents.

Sentinel: Solving the A8's 'Storage Sink' Problem

April 2026 — on building a survival loop for a car that spends its summers in a greenhouse, and why ‘propping it up’ is an engineering challenge

JAPIE: How an Incoherent Mess Became a Self-Improving AI Orchestrator

April 2026 — on shipping fast, discovering chaos, systematically fixing it, and then building a system that improves itself There’s a particular kind of technical debt that emerges when you ask an LLM to design an AI orchestrator without a clear spec.

The NPU Nobody Talks To: Mapping the CIX P1's Hidden AI Engine

The Orange Pi 6 Plus sits in the rack, humming along with the quiet confidence of a board that knows it is being underutilised. Inside the CIX P1 SoC is a dedicated Neural Processing Unit (NPU)—a piece of silicon specifically etched to crunch tensors and accelerate inference.