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Your IoT sensors deserve proper observability: MQTT to Prometheus with a Helm chart

May 2024 — because your home produces data worth keeping Smart home devices generate a constant stream of data. Temperature readings, power consumption, motion events, CO₂ levels, humidity.

MikroTik is a real router: automated backups and routing streaming traffic properly

December 2023 — on why your home router deserves the same attention as everything else in your stack Most home routers are appliances. You plug them in, log into a web UI once to set a password, and forget they exist until they stop working.

My thermostat was lying to me

October 2023 — on why your heating system’s sensor is probably wrong, and what to do about it The floor heating in my house had a problem I couldn’t immediately identify.

The home network shelf: MikroTik, TP-Link, and a 10-inch rack that fits in a cupboard

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.

Your commit is your CV: how I set my wife up with a CI/CD pipeline she could put on her resume

December 2022 — on the difference between saying you can do something and having the git history to prove it The first question any serious technical employer asks is: “Can I see something you’ve built?

Certificate governance without the ceremony: cert-manager + Venafi on k3s

December 2022 — because PKI shouldn’t require a JIRA ticket and three approvals There’s a version of certificate management that lives in large enterprises. You file a request.