Software Engineer · Homelab Architect
I build infrastructure that runs itself.
Software engineer. Everything on this site, including the site itself, runs in my homelab.
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machine uptime · 9 machines
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Featured Projects
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World Cup lobby dashboard - live scores, transit, and weather on one screen
MTA Dashboard
Real-time LIRR and Subway tracking from live GTFS-realtime feeds
Recent Posts
all posts ->- 2026-07-01MariaDB finally has a VIP
Three-node Galera plus ProxySQL closes the last single-point-of-failure database in the lab.
- 2026-06-26InnoDB log scan aborted: why NFS and embedded databases do not mix
Uptime Kuma's embedded MariaDB ran on a shared NFS volume in Docker Swarm. After an ungraceful shutdown, InnoDB could not recover and the monitoring stack went dark. The real fix was not restoring the database but eliminating the architectural pattern that made the failure inevitable.
- 2026-06-23The .so file that took down twelve databases at once
A routine Patroni maintenance restart caused all twelve TimescaleDB databases to fail simultaneously because the cluster was running a source-built extension that the package manager did not know about.