Self-hosting in 2026: what I actually run and why
Practical notes on the small fleet that powers my personal stack — services, certificates, backups, and the parts of the internet I control.
Notes on building things that stay up.
I write about distributed systems, Linux networking, observability, and the occasional long debugging saga. Everything here is my own opinion, not my employer's.
Latest posts
Understanding HTTP/3: the transport most of the web is moving to
A plain-language look at QUIC and how it changes connection setup, retransmission, and head-of-line blocking — for people who debug networks for a living.
A 4am debugging story: when the packet went the wrong way
One of those nights where the firewall rule was right, the config was right, and the packet still went somewhere it shouldn't have.
Kubernetes gotchas we keep hitting (and the fixes)
A running list of subtle mistakes I've seen in production clusters — from DNS timeouts to Race on readiness probes.