A practical walkthrough of Apple's MLX framework for local LLMs — inference, quantization, fine-tuning on a single Mac, then scaling to multi-Mac clusters with JACCL and Thunderbolt 5.
Curiosity is the most powerful thing you own
A beautiful narrative written over an elegant publishing platform. The story begins here...
DevOps, SRE, homelab — notes from the trenches.
devops From Jekyll to the Edge: Rebuilding hellodk.io on Astro, Cloudflare Pages, and a Visual Card Grid
How I migrated a decade-old Jekyll blog to Astro 6 on Cloudflare Pages — theme choices, layout decisions, search, AI chat, and why I landed on a Jasper-inspired card grid instead of a text-only docs layout.
devops Launch Checklist: What Still Needs Fixing Before hellodk.io Goes Live
Layout C is done. Search, chat, and Cloudflare wiring are in place. What remains is mostly post bodies — the words inside each article. Here's the audit, who does what, and your action items.
claude-code 406 Million Wasted Tokens: How I Caught Claude Ignoring Its Own Rules
Claude built a knowledge graph of the kri codebase, documented the token-saving workflow, then immediately ignored it. Here's what happened, what the token data showed, and how a PreToolUse hook now enforces the rule at the machine level.
kri 920 Nodes, 2767 Edges: Mapping kri with graphify — A Real Fleet Codebase Knowledge Graph
I ran graphify on kri, a FastAPI + React + SaltStack Mac Mini fleet manager, and let AST extraction + community detection reveal its 51 architectural clusters, 10 god-nodes, and the surprising cross-community bridges hiding in plain sight.
macos macOS and Linux VMs on Apple Silicon with tart and SaltStack
How to automate tart VM lifecycle on Apple Silicon Mac Minis using SaltStack — install, clone OCI images, set resources, and keep VMs alive with launchd. Covers both macOS Sonoma and Ubuntu VMs for testing the kri fleet platform without touching production nodes.
linux How a Routine apt upgrade Silently Broke GNOME Thumbnails for a Week
A May 15 gdk-pixbuf security patch rebuilt the loader cache on disk while Nautilus was running with the old one in memory. Tracker3's database went corrupt. Ubuntu 24.04's AppArmor silently blocked bwrap. Three independent failures. Zero user-visible errors. Eight days of broken thumbnails.
kri kri: Building an Enterprise Fleet Management Platform for Mac Mini Build Infrastructure
kri: Building an Enterprise Fleet Management Platform for Mac Mini Build Infrastructure
kubernetes Kubernetes Split DNS on Ubuntu 24.04
How to configure split DNS for Kubernetes on Ubuntu 24.04 so cluster and external domains both resolve cleanly.
kubernetes Kubernetes Monitoring
Complete guide to setting up kube-prometheus-stack — Prometheus, Grafana dashboards, AlertManager, and the PromQL queries that actually matter in production.
kubernetes Browser-Based Ubuntu Desktop with 3-Factor Auth and Zero Open Ports
Access your home lab from anywhere — 3-factor auth, zero open ports, $0/month. Apache Guacamole + Cloudflare Tunnel + xrdp + Ubuntu GNOME.
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nodejs pnpm: The Package Manager That Actually Respects Your Disk
pnpm: The Package Manager That Actually Respects Your Disk