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Bare Metal Kubernetes vs the Cloud: When It Actually Wins

Bare metal Kubernetes can be 5x cheaper than AWS — but it's wrong for most teams. I run 6 Hetzner nodes; here's the honest tradeoff and decision framework.

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Quick Start Guide (Evaluator Edition)

The fastest path to understanding both the learner flow and the admin flow in pleb.school.

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Grafana LGTM for Small Teams: What You Actually Need

The realistic minimum Grafana LGTM stack — Loki, Grafana, Tempo, Mimir, Alloy on one S3 bucket — for a small team that can't afford Datadog and doesn't need an enterprise build.

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How to archive your own personal slice of Nostr

How to build, install, configure, and use the Chronicle personal relay - a private relay that also includes events from your WoT and provides a built in Blossom server.

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Lean Infrastructure: A Cloud Cost Optimization Method

Cloud cost optimization in four decisions: cut the waste, own past your break-even, observe cheaply, and don't over-staff. The whole method, with the receipts.

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Building My Own Cloud

Six dedicated servers in a German data centre, and a multi-tenant Kubernetes platform on top of them. Most of what I run my life on now lives there. This is an honest account of why I built it, what it actually costs, and the situations in which you absolutely should not do the same.

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The Sovereign Stack: Self-Hosting in 2026

Two years ago, the self-hosting community was asking "what should I run?" Now they're sharing stacks that rival small business infrastructure. The r/selfhosted subreddit has become one of the most active technical communities on Reddit, and the broader homelab culture has shifted from tinkering to d

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Quick Start Guide (Evaluator Edition)

The fastest path to understanding both the learner flow and the admin flow in pleb.school.

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Self-Hosting 101: A Beginner's Guide to Privacy, Control, and Independence

Learn what self-hosting is and why it matters. Run your own services (websites, email, file sync, chat, etc.) for greater privacy and control. This guide covers tools (Docker, Raspberry Pi, VPS), common self-hosted apps (Nextcloud, Matrix, Bitwarden, etc.), and trade-offs vs Big Tech.

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🏗️ From Walled Gardens to Sovereign Stacks

A personal manifesto for breaking out of SaaS walled gardens — and building protocol-native, sovereign tools using Nostr and Bitcoin. From property registries to publishing, this is a blueprint for opting out and building free.

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Google Keep No More

Setting up self hosted cloud notes on raspberry pi with StartOS

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So Long Substack, Hello Ghost With Zaps

I write about why I decided to leave Substack and start posting my blogs on Ghost instead because I learned how to integrate nostr into my Ghost blog for payments and paid subscriptions.

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