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 03, 2026 · 20 min

The second source is the one that tells you if your design was right

The first course worked. The second one showed me which parts of my design were real and which parts were just how FSI happened to be laid out.

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.

/dev/random

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

— Kali Linux MOTD