Why an old dual-socket workstation beats a mini PC for a home hypervisor, and the three configuration decisions that determine whether the thing is still running in a year.
Longer write-ups from a home lab. Virtualisation, self-hosted image and speech generation, build automation, and the parts that went wrong before they went right.
Separate from the advisories, which are short, urgent, and written to a fixed shape. These are not.
Running image and speech generation at home
What a single consumer GPU can and cannot do for image, video and voice generation, and why the licence on a model matters more than its benchmark scores.
Selling digital products: what actually has to be true
The mechanics of selling a file online are a solved problem and take an afternoon. Everything difficult about it sits before the checkout page, and most advice skips it entirely.
Six lessons from automation that runs while you sleep
Unattended jobs fail differently from interactive ones: they fail quietly, and they fail identically every time. Six things that cost me real outages before I learned them.
Video as code: Remotion, and where an LLM actually helps
Describing video in React makes it reviewable, diffable and generatable — but the useful division of labour puts the model on the words and the code on the timing, not the other way round.