Giving an Old Ubuntu PC a Second Life With Apache Guacamole
How I reused an aging x64 Ubuntu PC as a browser-accessible development machine with Apache Guacamole, without consuming more resources in my Proxmox homelab.
Software lab notes
Experiments, written after the dust settles.
A workshop for web platforms, automation, AI agents, developer tooling, and the operational decisions that make software easier to run. The same habit that pulls me toward music is here too: listen closely, test the arrangement, keep the parts that work.
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From the Lab
Admitting I Don't Know in the Age of AI
Why working with AI makes uncertainty, good questions, explicit assumptions, and verification essential to reliable software engineering decisions and outcomes.
Notion2Ical: Turning Notion Tasks Into a Calendar Feed
How a personal Notion companion service became Notion2Ical, a small, tested .NET library that keeps open tasks visible through a standard iCalendar feed.
How I Used Codex to Cut My AWS Costs
A practical story about using Codex to assess AWS spend, tune S3 lifecycle policies, absorb a transition spike, and reduce recurring cloud costs safely.
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