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System Log

Entries are written after the useful work, once the outcome and the mistakes are both clear enough to describe.

• 2026-08-17 Leah's Blog Went to South Africa and Came Home
  The story of a small Ghost travel blog that began as an on-prem demo, spent a season on AWS in Cape Town, and returned to the homelab with its complete history intact.
• 2026-08-15 Why This Site Moved Home
  How a forgotten CloudFront page became a Hugo site built in Forgejo and served from a dedicated homelab container.
• 2026-08-15 One Certificate, Three Caddy Servers
  Why I wrote a Caddy module to let one edge renew certificates for several private proxies.
• 2026-07-22 Open WebUI, CLIProxyAPI, and a ChatGPT Subscription
  How I connected an existing ChatGPT subscription to my private Open WebUI, and the security and support boundaries I accepted.
• 2026-07-04 AI Agents, Second Brains, and Homelabs
  What changes when an AI agent can read the operating history of a real homelab, act on it, verify the result, and improve the record.
• 2025-12-01 What Does Self-Hosted AI Actually Mean?
  A practical framework for separating a self-hosted interface, local data, local inference, and model training.
• 2025-03-14 Serverless Without Another Platform Layer
  Revisiting the AWS primitives behind a small serverless publishing system: CloudFront, S3, Lambda, API Gateway, and Cognito.
• 2025-03-14 A Three-Edge Homelab with Tailscale and Caddy
  How I separate public, tailnet, and LAN ingress while giving every service container a host-independent network identity.
• 2024-03-22 Design Notes for a Basement Water Sensor
  A project notebook for turning a simple leak probe into a monitored, testable household alarm.
• 2024-03-22 Backyard Hydrology as a Systems Problem
  A field notebook for learning where water enters, slows, collects, and leaves a small property before trying to redesign it.