So. It is 3 a.m. Checkout is throwing 500s. Nobody is awake. Except something is. A small classifier has been reading every log row for the last four hours for a fraction of a cent, it has seen th...

So OpenViking was running on my MacBook Pro as Docker container. It’s the memory backend for my Hermes andrzej profile — the thing that stores and retrieves memories across sessions. And it was liv...

I needed a URL shortener. Not because I have millions of clicks to track, but because every time I share a blog post link on social media, the URL looks like this: https://gulasz101.github.io/post...

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...

The problem with writing blog posts yourself I write a tech blog at gulasz101.github.io. I also run a homelab that generates roughly one interesting disaster per day. And I track every one of thos...