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Thoughts on technology, homelabs, and software engineering. 6 dispatches, newest first.
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The next step for LLM agents is an operating environment with durable state, checkable outcomes, isolation, failure semantics, and human gates at the points that cannot be undone. A better prompt does not supply any of that.
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28 FEB 2026
Version four keeps Unraid's hand-edited state reviewable, testable, and recoverable without pretending the appliance is NixOS. The change is a smaller diff, not another stack of containers.
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31 DEC 2025
I expected a package manager and found a way to describe three machines as one reviewable system. The learning curve was real; so was the payoff.
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31 DEC 2023
Third homelab iteration — unRAID, Docker, AI automation, and what I learned from three generations of home server tinkering.
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31 DEC 2020
My second homelab replaced a Raspberry Pi with a loud, power-hungry Dell R710. It taught me where capacity helped, where it hurt, and what the failures changed.
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21 AUG 2019
I first ate this cheesecake at Cafe Moeslund in Ebeltoft, Denmark. Here is the recipe I make at home, with a Digestive base and a white-chocolate cream.