How I built a fully self-hosted AI agent on a consumer laptop — and used it to plan a 45-day camper trip through Luxembourg, France, and Spain, without sending a single byte to an external cloud service.
I migrated from MinIO to Garage this week. Now I'm migrating again — this time to RustFS. Here's why, and how I built a proper Helm chart to run it on my Talos cluster.
A deep dive into my home setup: a fully wired Gigabit network, a 5-node Talos Linux Kubernetes cluster, dual Synology NAS units, and a desktop build that has absolutely no chill.
MinIO killed its community edition. Here's how I migrated to Garage on my Talos/K8s homelab cluster.
Why I moved my AI agent stack from Kubernetes to a bare metal laptop, what broke along the way, and the 98% success rate that followed. A technical journey through OpenClaw, Ollama, and production AI infrastructure.
On November 11, 2025, the Kubernetes community announced the end of Ingress NGINX. The project that had been the de facto standard for routing traffic to Kubernetes workloads for years is retiring in March 2026. No new releases, no bugfixes, no security patches. For me, this meant one thing: time to migrate. Why Ingress NGINX is Shutting Down The story behind the retirement is actually quite sad. Despite its enormous popularity, the project was maintained for years by just one or two volunteers working in their spare time, on evenings and weekends....