homelab 30 May 2026 18 min read
Load Testing - Unnecessary but Interesting
Discovering the stack's limits before real traffic did. Finding the ceiling, pushing past it, and the kernel that couldn't keep up.
gread@192.168.1.16
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Yep, actually live. A cron on my Synology NAS queries Prometheus + Loki every 15 min and drops a JSON
file into this static site; the page just fetches it on load.
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composer dump-autoload is busy, I'll do it myself
A Friday night hotfix blocked by a 3-hour deployment pipeline. How classmap-authoritative autoloading made a missing PHP class invisible, and how to manually patch around it without installing anything on a production host.
homelab 24 Apr 2026 10 min read
The NAS that kept us awake
Building JS projects in your home folder on a btrfs NAS generates tens of thousands of indexed files and hundreds of Docker layers. Read-write NVMe cache meant every Docker build burned through laptop SSDs that weren't rated for it.
homelab 5 Apr 2026 6 min read
WireGuard throughput: from 5 Mbps to saturating the link
Investigating why remote users were getting 5 Mbps through a WireGuard tunnel despite 400+ Mbps available on both ends. MTU fragmentation, TCP congestion collapse, and UDP buffer exhaustion.
homelab 2 Apr 2026 2 min read
Deploying Authentik SSO across the homelab
Replacing per-service authentication with centralised SSO backed by Google OAuth. OIDC for Grafana, Immich, Portainer; forwardAuth for everything else.
Projects
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Developer Workbench
An Electron desktop app built to close the developer experience gaps a 70-engineer team was working around every day: devbox management, merge queue, AWS, RabbitMQ, and more.
TypeScript Angular Electron
work
Support Platform
Full-stack customer support infrastructure, designed as a graduate and still in production nine years later. Now powers AI agent workflows and is replacing the company's commercial helpdesk.
PHP MySQL RabbitMQ Angular
work
PHP Type Safety
70 custom static analysis rules enforcing platform standards automatically at build time across a million-line codebase.
Psalm PHPStan Rector PHP