I Feel Like The Self-Hosted And FOSS Space Is Being Flooded With Vibe-Coded AI Slop Introduction The self-hosted and Free Open Source Software (FOSS) ecosystem faces an unprecedented challenge: a...

Did I Just Strike Gold? Found Two Amfeltec PCIe Carrier Boards With 4X 1TB Samsung 960 Pros In A $10 Flea Market Junk Box Introduction The thrill of discovering high-performance hardware in unexpe...

Return To The Office They Said It Will Improve Collaboration They Said 1. Introduction The DevOps community collectively groaned when corporate mandates began demanding returns to physical offices...

4X Rtx6000 Pro 2X L40S 2X Rtx6000 Ada: The Ultimate Homelab Workstation Breakdown 1. Introduction: The New Frontier of Personal High-Performance Computing The phrase “personal supercomputer” once...

Saw This Plate Out In The Wild Today: A Deep Dive into Linux Permissions and Ownership for DevOps Practitioners INTRODUCTION You’re driving down the highway when you spot a vanity license plate: ...

Can I Speak For Everyone And Say: The Reality of Hardware Inflation in DevOps Environments 1. Introduction The collective groan echoing through homelab forums and enterprise datacenters is palpab...

My Employer Is Getting Rid Of Old Hardware: A DevOps Guide to Responsible Repurposing Introduction When organizations modernize their infrastructure, mountains of decommissioned hardware get disc...

Who’s Still Working From Home In 2026 1. Introduction The global shift to remote work during the 2020 pandemic created permanent infrastructure changes that continue evolving in 2026. As DevOps e...

Doing My Daily English Lesson: How Language Learning Explains Infrastructure as Cattle Introduction The phrase “I love my wife and my server, but only in that order” appears as a throwaway commen...

Those 3 Minutes Of Existential Dread While The Hypervisor Is Booting Introduction Every system administrator and DevOps engineer knows the visceral panic that sets in when staring at a frozen hype...