03 field notes

Written down so I stop relearning it.

Build logs, homelab writeups, and opinions I am willing to defend in a code review.

The Seed Is in the Image

2026-06-30 · 4 min read

I edited a project description, ran the seed, and watched the site serve the old copy back at me with total confidence.

docker · ops · content

Two Systems, One Endpoint, and No Agreement

2026-05-21 · 4 min read

The EDR platform and the RMM platform each knew things about the same machine that the other did not, and neither could answer the only question that mattered.

security · cve · integration

AVX, and the Database That Would Not Start

2026-03-19 · 3 min read

MongoDB 5.0 and up require an instruction set my hypervisor was quietly hiding, and the fix was three menus deep in Proxmox rather than anywhere in the repo.

homelab · mongodb · proxmox

One Port Is Enough

2026-02-28 · 2 min read

How collapsing every service down to a single published port and one Caddy instance ended the reverse-proxy sprawl in my homelab.

homelab · caddy · docker

Express 5 Removed My Home Page

2026-01-28 · 3 min read

Every route worked except the one people actually visit, and the fix was two braces in a wildcard.

express · debugging · spa

On the Dignity of the Reboot

2026-01-14 · 2 min read

We ask machines to die and come back without complaint, then act surprised when they hold a grudge in the form of a corrupted filesystem.

manifesto · ops

The Audit Fix That Made It Worse

2025-11-06 · 3 min read

npm audit offered to trade one advisory I could not reach for fourteen I could, and reading them took less time than the upgrade would have.

security · npm · dependencies

Zabbix Says It's Up

2025-08-14 · 3 min read

Every check was green while the ERP was unusable, because host-up and service-healthy are not the same claim.

monitoring · mssql · ops

Twelve Pis in a Warehouse

2023-04-09 · 2 min read

Build log from deploying a dozen Raspberry Pi punch clocks onto a shop floor, where the failure modes are dust, power, and human beings.

hardware · build-log · raspberry-pi