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.
Notebook
Software × Operations
What delivers the function — apps, APIs, SaaS, platform services. · Run it — provisioning, patching, incidents, SLAs.
Idea notes
Why we're keeping venv, for now
I measured uv against our pin-everything dependency policy. It fits. And we're still staying on stdlib venv. The why is more interesting than the verdict.
How the agent fleet is wired, in five layers
From a typed request to a guarded action against a real system, a walk down the stack that turns Claude Code into a fleet of homelab operators: the CLI, the shared agent-core, the agents, their skills, and the actions they perform.
Teaching an AI agent to speak Technitium
Building a DNS skill for our network agent, and the two-layer permission model that hid our zones in plain sight.
On-demand Docker updates for when Watchtower blinks
Teaching my agent to update Docker stacks within policy: including the source-built ones that have no image to pull.