$ whoami
I’m an engineer based in the EU, working in Cloud / DevOps. By day: Azure, Terraform, Ansible, Kubernetes, CI/CD. By night: a homelab - partly for services my family actually uses, partly to work through whatever I’m currently learning. This blog is where the two meet.
What I write about
- Homelab experiments - what I build on real hardware, what breaks, what I learn fixing it
- Production lessons - sanitized stories from work, with what I’d do differently
- Architecture decisions - tools, tradeoffs, and the reasoning behind them
- Career notes - occasionally, when the view from this stage seems useful
Why I write here
There’s plenty of expert content explaining architectures from the top of the mountain, and plenty of beginner tutorials. Much less from a few steps ahead - sharing the path while it’s still fresh, wrong turns included. That’s the gap I write into.
What this blog isn’t
Not a tutorial site - if you want “how to install X step by step,” there are better places. The posts lean toward decisions and tradeoffs, closer to engineering writing than documentation. And not a CV - that lives elsewhere; this is the work itself, ongoing.
Stack
Built with Hugo and the PaperMod theme, deployed via Cloudflare Pages on push to main. Source: github.com/labsio/blog.thelabdesk.com. The homelab itself - services, configs, decisions - lives at github.com/labsio/homelab.
Contact
Reach me via GitHub - open an issue on any post in this repo.