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.

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Proxmox Ubuntu 26.04 template

Build an Ubuntu 26.04 cloud-init template in Proxmox, with workarounds for a slow first boot, shared machine IDs, and a disk too small to upgrade.

Active: active (running) since 2026-10-09; 9 min read CGroup: /proxmox /virtual-machines Tags:

Tuning AdGuard Home DNS across homelab VLANs

Benchmarking my three AdGuard Home servers from two VLANs turned up a shared rate limit. A small configuration change removed the timeouts.

Active: active (running) since 2026-10-05; 8 min read CGroup: /homelab /networking Tags:

adguard dns networking homelab

Hosting my portfolio on Cloudflare Pages

Hosting my character sheet portfolio at acaylor.dev with Cloudflare Pages and OpenTofu, and generating a resume PDF.

Active: active (running) since 2026-09-26; 8 min read CGroup: /software-development /cloud Tags:

cloudflare opentofu terraform infrastructure-as-code

Moving my npm projects to pnpm 12

Migrating the npm projects under my sourcecode directory to pnpm 12, including lockfiles, build scripts, CI, and container builds.

Active: active (running) since 2026-09-21; 5 min read CGroup: /software-development Tags:

javascript typescript npm pnpm

Ten AI models from Summer 2026 built a Matrix terminal system monitor

Ten AI models, thirteen Matrix terminal monitors, and the problems I found while building a blind evaluation harness.

Active: active (idle) since 2026-09-06; 14 min read CGroup: /software-development Tags:

terminal rust golang llm

Managing multiple AI agents with Herdr

How I use Herdr to organize multiple coding agents, monitor their sessions in real time, and focus on the work that needs my attention.

Active: active (idle) since 2026-08-25; 7 min read CGroup: /ai Tags:

ai claude-code codex llm

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