Homelab

Our nightly Velero backups reported 'Completed' every single night. Then we actually looked at what was inside them: nothing. Here's how a silent default in local-path-provisioner backed up 550 KB of metadata and zero files for 136 days — and how we found it, fixed it, and proved the fix with a real restore.

When your hosting provider goes down, you have two options: scramble or switch. We built an automated failover system using Cloudflare Workers, KV storage, and an on-site server that flips DNS within two minutes — at zero ongoing cost.

How I built and deployed a fully automated static blog with a custom theme, GitLab CI pipeline, Terraform infrastructure, and a perfect Lighthouse score — and what actually broke along the way.