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Serverless was the wrong shape for the games: 17 Knative functions to 4 Go servers
The games were always-on once min-scale flipped to 1, so the Knative tax stopped paying for itself; PR
Writing on homelabs, Kubernetes, and whatever else
Every post I've published, newest first.
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Building a Local LLM Gateway on a Mac Mini
A small OpenAI-compatible proxy in front of Ollama — Bearer auth, model routing, streaming — so no cluster pod has to hold a vendor API key.
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Guest mode + viewport-aware screens + wireframe-driven UI
Three onboarding gaps closed in one March — friends couldn't join without an account, mobile re-rendered on every scroll, and the UI had drifted from its own wireframes.
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Two Control Planes, Clear Ownership: FluxCD for State, ArgoCD for Eyes
Multiplayer games forced a staging branch and a UI for trust — FluxCD kept writing because ArgoCD cannot decrypt SOPS.
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One API, N Games: Client-Authoritative Event Sourcing for a Unified Game Client
Adding a new board game stopped being a backend project the day the server stopped importing game engines — YINSH proved it in a weekend.
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Bootstrapping a Home K8s Cluster for a Multiplayer-Game Side Project
Four weeks took a raw k3s box to 14 Knative functions, FluxCD GitOps, and sub-second cold starts — the layering order that made it work.