Opinion notes
AI is humanized compute
AI isn't a new domain, it's compute grown up enough to act. Treat it like staff: a broad junior, always inside a human accountability tree, carrying its own papers.
Notebook
Compute × Governance
Where workloads run — servers, VMs, containers, endpoints. · Prove it — ownership, change control, audit trails.
Modern IT infrastructure, in five pillars
The framework I use to keep infrastructure sane: five pillars on four foundations, every component a CI wired to the rest.
Nobody holds an SSH key here, including me
A private CA as the single SSH trust root: short-lived certs for humans (SSO+MFA), 10-minute ones for machines, and host certs that kill known_hosts TOFU.
Phase 0: read the house before you renovate
The first phase changes nothing. It just reads live state and proves how wrong the plan already was. Discovery is the cheapest phase and the most valuable.
Rebuilding my homelab as code, with an agent riding shotgun
Starting a phased, infrastructure-as-code rebuild of the homelab, and pairing with an AI agent that does the typing while I keep the judgement.