$ ls posts/ --sort=date | grep 'author: <span>jvs</span>'
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Build Your Own Mini-Cloud: The Anatomy of a Self-Hosted VM Platform
Every cloud provider is, at its core, a pile of software standing between you and a hypervisor. The dashboard, the API, the billing page — all of it eventually calls something that …
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AI Agents Need Guardrails, Not Trust
Agents don’t fail loudly — they fail politely, at machine speed. Least privilege, hard limits, and humans on anything irreversible.
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You Can’t Vibe a Backup
Ship by feel, fix it when it breaks — except here. Data loss is the one failure with no feedback loop, and good backups are what make the vibes safe.
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Alert Fatigue Is a Design Problem
Every alert is a request for human attention, the scarcest resource in the stack. If an alert doesn’t demand an action, it’s a graph — or a delete.
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What AI Pair Programming Is Actually Good At
It abolishes the blank page and the boring parts, and it fails by being confidently wrong. The bottleneck moves from typing to judgment.
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The Homelab Hierarchy of Needs
DNS, then backups, then monitoring, then the front door — and only then the toys. Build downward first, and the fun stuff stays up.
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Docker Compose Is Still All You Need
Kubernetes at home solves problems you don’t have, at a price you pay every weekend. Spend your complexity budget on the services, not the platform.
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Vibe Coding: A Manifesto
Ship by feel, let the AI catch you, fix it when it breaks. Some people call it reckless. I call it efficient. Know which projects deserve vibes and which need rigor.
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Why Self-Hosting Still Matters in 2026
Every service you self-host is a service that cannot raise prices, change its terms, or get acquired. But the real reason is the vibe of ownership.