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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.

The AI That Monitored Your Cluster Just Brought It Down

“Why can’t I see the new photos?” That’s how the outage started. Not with a PagerDuty alert or a Grafana dashboard turning red, but with a casual question from my wife.

€200 Claude.ai bill in one week — so I built a cheaper alternative

April 2026 — one week of intensive AI-assisted work, one surprising bill, and one decision to do something about it The Claude.ai usage screen showed €169.

cluster-shepherd: The AI Ops Agent That Actually Knows Your Cluster

April 2026 — what happens when you stop treating AI as a search engine and start treating it as a co-pilot with real cluster access