The Accidental Platform: How One Free Server Grew Into a Private Infrastructure Hub
TL;DR: I built a private infrastructure hub on an OCI Always Free VM — not by planning it, but by repeatedly asking “can I solve this with what I already hav...
Working log
Systems, tools, and the process of figuring things out.
A running record of infrastructure builds, consulting work, and AI experiments — documented as I go. Some of it is useful. Some of it is just me thinking out loud.
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27 Emails, One Contract, and the Clause I’m Still Watching
It took 27 emails and roughly five weeks to go from a first document review to the word accepted.
When ChatGPT Cost Me Two Weeks and a Holiday in Traffic
TL;DR: ChatGPT gave me confidently wrong architectural advice about L2TP networking. I doubted it. It insisted. I gave in. That cost me two weeks and multipl...
2026: Working With AI, Not Letting AI Work For Me
Happy New Year 2026
The AI Architect: Wrestling ChatGPT into Building a Robust Telegram-to-Mikrotik Workflow
Discover how to build a Telegram based remote command system for your Mikrotik router with ChatGPT. This guide shares critical lessons on guiding AI to avoid...
The “Context Capsule” That Crumbled – A Week Vibe Coding Our Website
Another week in the lab, pushing the boundaries of what a self-writing website for POC can be. This time, the battle wasn’t with the code itself, but with th...
Ways of Working with Chatgpt 5 (Chak)
after a lot of forgetting constant, variable name and loss of suggestion & some improvement idea. Today, half day is dedicated to create a product backlo...
Taming Decap CMS With AI — A Non-Coder’s Journey
I didn’t set out to become a developer. I wanted a simple personal lab — a place to document real projects, thinking, and learning in public.