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.
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.
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.
700ms. That was the number that haunted my Kubernetes cluster, slowly burning it to the ground. Every alert the cluster generated, every log line it processed for AI-driven feedback, triggered an embedding operation.
April 2023 — on making the network visible, organised, and not an embarrassment
Every home network starts the same way: a router from the ISP, a switch from a supermarket, a tangle of cables behind the television.
February 2021 — on the noise that comes from spinning rust and how to stop it from travelling
Every NAS build guide covers the same things: which board, which drives, which OS, how many watts.
