Series

Multi-part guides and deep dives.

• Homelab from scratch

  1 part

  1. 1. Why homelab? Building a proper self-hosted setup from scratch
     24 May, 2026

     From scattered containers to a proper self-hosted setup: hardware choices, the double NAT problem, and VLAN network design — how to build a homelab that actually keeps running.

• The Stress Test

  1 part

  1. 1. We built the world economy with no redundancy. 2026 is stress-testing it - Trade, Gold, AI and Transition
     3 Nov, 2026

     Thinking out loud as an engineer: what a car priced in gold says about Nixon's 1971 gamble, why war, tariffs and $40 trillion of debt are hitting a system with no slack, who holds power when you stop making things, and what I'm going to learn in 2027 to come out alive, if not winning.