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What a Hostname Rename Taught Me About Proxmox Internals

A routine rename turned into a kernel panic, a Ventoy injection discovery, and live SQLite surgery on a running Proxmox cluster. Everything I didn't know about how Proxmox actually stores config.

Jarvis: Architecture of an AI Robot Dog

The state machine, threading model, audio pipeline, LED system, physical commands, and game modes that run under the hood of a local AI robot dog. No cloud, no subscriptions.

The Script That Eliminated a Support Queue

How 60 lines of Python generating WiFi QR codes for 200+ apartment units eliminated an entire category of resident support calls before they ever happened.

More to come soon.