How Race to Dutch First is built and run
A site that follows the Dutch-speaking World of Warcraft guilds racing to Cutting Edge. It grew out of my stream overlay, and runs on my homelab.
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Notes from building and running infrastructure: AWS, containers, a homelab, and the pipelines that deploy it all.
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October 2026
September 2026
My homelab runs through pull requests
My homelab used to be one box of containers I managed by hand. Now it's a Proxmox cluster run from a Git repository called senate, which I built assisted by Claude Code. The ideas behind it, how I work in it, and what I learned.
How Chrome's font cache semi-bricked my KDE desktop
Chrome 154 replaced the system's fontconfig cache files with symlinks to its own, and every new Qt app started segfaulting. How I found it, proved it in a sandbox, and keep it away with a systemd path unit until Chrome ships a fix.
Charging an EV under the Belgian capacity tariff
Keeping the whole house under 2.5 kW while the car charges, with one evcc setting, a budget per quarter hour, and the ceilings and floors that hid whether it was working.
Quieter fans on a Dell R710 with local IPMI
A Bash script and a systemd timer that keep a Proxmox host's fans at a fixed low speed while it's cool, and hand control back to Dell's automatic mode when it warms up.
How this blog is built and shipped
A static Astro site in a container image, deployed from a homelab through the same pull-request pipeline as everything else, and reachable without opening a single port.
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