Thoughts on software engineering, systems thinking, and building things that work. Less about trends, more about what actually matters.
70 messages, $3,000 in my cart, and weeks of comparing QNAP vs Synology. Then I remembered I was already building a server.
Read moreI bought a 16-core server and a rack. Then I spent three days debugging why containers couldn't ping the internet. This is what homelabs actually teach you.
I wanted to give an LLM full access to my computer. Then I hit two walls I couldn't code around. One was technical. The other cost $3,000.
What happens when you stop renting GPUs and start feeling constraints. A story about Colab bills, CUDA crashes, and why friction is the best teacher.
Opportunities expire. What two missed chances taught me about timing, readiness, and learning systems the hard way.