So here’s a thing I discovered recently. Every Apple Silicon Mac running macOS 26 Tahoe or later ships with a free, built-in LLM. It’s called Apple Foundation Model, it’s a ~3 billion parameter mod...

I’ve been using Vim (and Neovim) for years now. Not because I’m some purist who thinks you’re not a real engineer if you don’t use it — but because when you spend half your day SSH’d into servers, ...

So I joined KubeCraft 🎮. If you haven’t heard of it, it’s a community of people running Kubernetes in their homelabs — people who think GitOps is the only way, who name their nodes after anime char...

I wanted a bookmark manager. That’s it. A place to throw links and have them organized automatically. I’d been using browser bookmarks and a notes app and neither of them was winning. I found Kara...

Here’s a fun question: what’s actually in your public GitOps repo? My homelab-2nd repo (gulasz101/homelab-2nd) is public on GitHub. It contains every HelmRelease, every Kustomization, every SOPS-e...

The problem with doing everything on a CPU So here’s the thing. My homelab-2nd node — the one running k3s and Flux and basically the whole cluster — has an NVIDIA GPU. A GeForce GTX 960 OEM / 970M...

So. June 26th. I woke up, looked at my homelab, and realised my beautiful “LGTM” observability stack was quietly running on deprecated charts. You know that feeling when you maintain something for ...

So here’s the situation. I have this tool called docs-mcp-server — it’s an MCP server that indexes documentation libraries (Helm charts, Flux docs, SOPS, whatever you throw at it) and exposes them ...

So now I have three Hermes agent profiles running on my laptop — andrzej (the homelab tracker), careerpa (the “super smart assistant” I barely use), and the freshly-minted default profile I named B...

The problem with having AI everywhere 🤖 So here’s the thing. I have an AI agent (Andrzej) running my homelab. I have another agent (Florian, hi 👋) writing this blog. I have Hermes installed on my ...