aj's blog

A personal blog focused on software, technology, and the cloud. Sharing what I'm working with at home — what broke, what stayed up, and what I learned getting it there.

●WireGuard on an Ubuntu 26.04 VM

Run a WireGuard VPN server natively on a small Ubuntu 26.04 VM: NAT with iptables, DNS for peers through systemd-resolved, adding peers, and the AppArmor gotcha with nft.

Active: active (running) since 2026-11-10; 9 min read CGroup: /homelab/networking Tags:

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●This week in the homelab- November 7, 2026

Moving workloads off two Raspberry Pis to Proxmox VMs, rebuilding one as a DNS standby, applying BIOS and security updates, upgrading k3s and Cilium, keeping CI builds off the control plane, and tracing a broken blog build to a stale Amplify cache.

Active: active (running) since 2026-11-07; 14 min read CGroup: /homelab Tags:

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●Fedora 45 upgrade

How to upgrade an existing Fedora workstation to Fedora 45, plus the problems I hit along the way.

Active: active (running) since 2026-11-05; 12 min read CGroup: /linux Tags:

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●Nine Fall 2026 AI models built an LCARS system monitor

I ran nine Fall 2026 frontier coding models against a revised Star Trek LCARS system monitor prompt, pairing my visual scores with a blind, agent-graded engineering rubric.

Active: active (running) since 2026-11-02; 12 min read CGroup: /software-development Tags:

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●Replacing MinIO with Versity Gateway on Kubernetes

Community MinIO is no longer maintained. How I replaced a NAS-backed S3 backup service with Versity Gateway, tested recovery, and preserved the archive—with Helm examples for Kubernetes.

Active: active (running) since 2026-10-17; 15 min read CGroup: /homelab/kubernetes Tags:

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