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...
FlowformLab
Notes on systems, tools, and the process of figuring things out (mostly for myself).
Welcome — this is my working log: part notes, part diagrams, part reflection.
I document what I learn while building, fixing, and understanding systems — digital, mechanical, and human.
Not about perfection; about curiosity, iteration, and making sense of what we build.
Recent Posts
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...
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.