root@pattie ~

notes from the terminal

breaking things on purpose so production doesn't. kubernetes, homelab builds, ci/cd, and the security background to know why it matters.

session.sh

$ whoami

craven

sysadmin → devops

still paranoid about security

the homelabs

homelab ~/brasil

brasil homelab

bare metal · k3s · gitops

bare-metal kubernetes on a mac cluster. k3s, flux gitops, self-hosted apps, and everything that breaks along the way.

$ ls ~/brasil › tutor — open webui + ollama› coach — python cli

view the build →

homelab ~/kubecraft

kubecraft homelab

kubernetes · from scratch

the kubernetes build log. what i ran, what confused me, what broke, and how confident i actually am about each piece of it.

$ ls ~/kubecraft › build in progress› first logs landing soon

view the build →

latest transmissions

devops · Oct 05, 2026 · 9 min

Letting Linkding Out of the House

My bookmark manager only existed behind a port-forward. Getting it onto the public internet took a Cloudflare Tunnel, a Service I never made, and a certificate lesson I did not see coming.

devops · Oct 02, 2026 · 18 min

Scraping a 1970s language course into Postgres

A free FSI course, an OCR text layer that is mostly right, and a five stage pipeline you can run twice without breaking anything.

devops · Sep 24, 2026 · 7 min

Five ways I broke port-forward in one night

One command, two numbers, and every one of them wrong at some point while I tested Navidrome and Open WebUI.

devops · Sep 24, 2026 · 9 min

Navidrome was running and doing nothing

Two settings that had been quietly ignored for 37 days, a root-owned volume on the Dell, and the restart test that almost scared me.

/dev/random

"The quieter you become, the more you are able to hear."

— Kali Linux MOTD