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Six attempts, three days, one stubborn MX330. A post-mortem on laptop GPU passthrough in Proxmox — what failed, why it's architecturally impossible, and exactly what to buy instead.

Turn an old laptop into a full Proxmox home server — Wi-Fi NAT routing, DHCP, MTU fixes, and every gotcha you'll actually hit. A practical guide that also teaches you how AWS works.

A developer's hands-on guide to quantum computing fundamentals — from qubits and gates to building a quantum teleportation circuit, no physics degree required.

A Docker networking war story — why localhost lies inside containers, how --add-host gets you close, and how socat bridges the final gap for Playwright E2E tests.

A practical guide to Merkle hash chain audit logs — what they are, how they work, and the honest question most teams skip: do you actually need one?

Go's new runtime/secret package addresses a blind spot in secret management — what happens to sensitive data after it's loaded into memory. A deep dive into when and how to use it.

A cautionary tale for DevOps engineers about the dangerous shortcut of chmod 666 on Docker sockets, and the proper GID-based approach for Docker-in-Docker setups.

I went down a rabbit hole figuring out why my nodes had less resources than expected. Here's everything I learned about kubelet reservations, the allocatable formula, and drop-in configs.

Practical insights and best practices for managing PostgreSQL databases and implementing effective caching strategies.

A developer's practical guide to instrumenting applications with OpenTelemetry, sharing key learnings on spans, context propagation, and sampling.

How to resolve network connectivity issues between Docker and virt-manager VMs

A recap of my exciting tech journey in September 2025

Configuration for making Delve work with neovim

Created a working project using the wasi's new composition feature