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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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Community MinIO is no longer maintained.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.
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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.
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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.
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Hosting my character sheet portfolio at acaylor.dev with Cloudflare Pages and OpenTofu, and generating a resume PDF.
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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.
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Ten AI models, thirteen Matrix terminal monitors, and the problems I found while building a blind evaluation harness.
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