Infrastructure

• The Real Cost of AI Tokens: Efficiency Lessons from a Resource-Constrained Homelab — Tokens aren't free. On limited hardware and budgets, every call has real costs in compute, electricity, and money. Here's why efficiency matters for accessibility—and how a fleet-wide command broadcast system uses scripts to deliver high-level intelligence to an LLM with minimal waste. · 03 Jun 2026
• Building My Own Internet on Top of the Internet: Lessons from Basic DNS and Appreciation for the World Wide Web — Homelab Phase 2 progress with Tailscale mesh, ZFS storage, and Technitium DNS taught profound lessons about foundational DNS, the power and responsibility of running a private overlay 'internet,' and a renewed appreciation for the open World Wide Web — with security as the non-negotiable core. DNS integration is still incomplete. · 03 Jun 2026
• The Hidden Complexity of 'Simple' File Distribution — How a 'simple' Syncthing-based log collection system revealed deeper problems with permissions, resource constraints, and centralized thinking — and what we built instead. · 02 Jun 2026