Writing
This is where I keep the longer-form notes I have written about the systems I run. I have no framework to sell and no conference talk to trail, so these are essays rather than posts: what I tried, what went wrong, and what I would do differently if I were starting the work over today. I expect to add to the list on an irregular schedule, roughly whenever a project gives me something worth describing at length.
Thirteen Services, One VPS
A walk-through of the topology I run on a small rented box, covering how Traefik routes the traffic between five applications and thirteen Docker containers, and the chain of services that turns a single contact-form submission into a Slack channel attended by a concierge.
Docker · Traefik · PostgreSQL · n8n · Ollama
Building an Ops Hub Under Resource Constraints
An honest account of the tradeoffs behind Nexus Ops, including why I chose to run a Backend-for-Frontend rather than a gateway, why Ollama lives on the box itself while Claude continues to be called over the network, and why I gave up on iframes before the first prototype ever shipped.
Fastify · React · BullMQ · Redis · Ollama