https://hai.wxs.ro/Documenting the journey of building and maintaining a 3-node Proxmox homelab with Kubernetes, 90+ ArgoCD apps, and AI-assisted developmentHugo -- gohugo.ioen-ushttps://hai.wxs.ro/guides/git-worktrees/Fri, 24 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://hai.wxs.ro/guides/git-worktrees/Multiple branches checked out side-by-side, and why it pairs perfectly with AI coding.https://hai.wxs.ro/infrastructure/spectrocloud/Sat, 18 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://hai.wxs.ro/infrastructure/spectrocloud/A year running my homelab Kubernetes on Spectro Cloud Palette. Easy to get started with, deep when you need it: next-next-finish cluster profiles for day one, raw pack values and targeted replace() overrides for power users, and the uncanny Claude afternoon that wrote the Terraformhttps://hai.wxs.ro/custom-tools/prepuller/Wed, 15 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://hai.wxs.ro/custom-tools/prepuller/A Forgejo Action for Flux-based GitOps repos that generates DaemonSets to pre-pull container images for labeled HelmReleases, keeping critical images warm on every worker node.https://hai.wxs.ro/custom-tools/s3bkp/Mon, 13 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://hai.wxs.ro/custom-tools/s3bkp/How I built a Kyverno-injected sidecar to back up and restore PVCs to S3 during blue/green cluster reinstalls, and why I eventually replaced it with VolSync.https://hai.wxs.ro/migrations/s3bkp-to-volsync/Mon, 13 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://hai.wxs.ro/migrations/s3bkp-to-volsync/How a YouTube video made me realize my custom backup tool was a reinvented wheel, and the migration to VolSync that followed.https://hai.wxs.ro/failures/reinventing-the-wheel/Mon, 13 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://hai.wxs.ro/failures/reinventing-the-wheel/I built a 2,400-line bash backup tool for Kubernetes before realizing a well-maintained open-source operator already existed. Not a total loss, but a lesson in doing your research first.https://hai.wxs.ro/ai-stuff/co-authored-with-ai/Wed, 08 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://hai.wxs.ro/ai-stuff/co-authored-with-ai/A growing log of upstream OSS contributions I made with Claude Code that I could not have made without ithttps://hai.wxs.ro/failures/kubecon-power-outage/Sun, 05 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://hai.wxs.ro/failures/kubecon-power-outage/Left for KubeCon Amsterdam 2026, power went out at home, and a cascade of failures left my wife without WiFi, water, or any way to fix ithttps://hai.wxs.ro/guides/kubecon-guide/Thu, 19 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://hai.wxs.ro/guides/kubecon-guide/Lessons from attending every European KubeCon since 2023, plus practical tips for first-timers and veterans alikehttps://hai.wxs.ro/kubernetes/alertmanager-apple-watch/Tue, 17 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://hai.wxs.ro/kubernetes/alertmanager-apple-watch/Making Prometheus AlertManager Slack alerts readable on Apple Watch and macOS instead of raw label dumpshttps://hai.wxs.ro/ai-stuff/arc-devtools-mcp/Mon, 16 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://hai.wxs.ro/ai-stuff/arc-devtools-mcp/Controlling Arc Browser from Claude Code using the Chrome DevTools Protocol MCP serverhttps://hai.wxs.ro/ai-stuff/rtk/Fri, 13 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://hai.wxs.ro/ai-stuff/rtk/A Rust CLI proxy that filters noisy tool output before it hits the context window, saving 60-90% of wasted tokenshttps://hai.wxs.ro/ai-stuff/dippy-permissions/Fri, 13 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://hai.wxs.ro/ai-stuff/dippy-permissions/How I migrated 191 scattered permission rules to a single, readable config with guidance messageshttps://hai.wxs.ro/crossplane/why-crossplane/Wed, 11 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://hai.wxs.ro/crossplane/why-crossplane/From the Kubernetes Resource Model to Crossplane compositions, how I build platform abstractions that let developers self-service without waiting on opshttps://hai.wxs.ro/tools/k8s-cleaner/Thu, 05 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://hai.wxs.ro/tools/k8s-cleaner/Using k8s-cleaner to detect unused ConfigMaps, Secrets, PVCs, non-GitOps deployments, and orphaned CNPG resources with Lua-based scan policieshttps://hai.wxs.ro/ai-stuff/commands-vs-mcp-vs-skills/Tue, 03 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://hai.wxs.ro/ai-stuff/commands-vs-mcp-vs-skills/Understanding the three ways to extend AI coding agents: slash commands, MCP servers, and skillshttps://hai.wxs.ro/ai-stuff/claude-code-action-forgejo/Fri, 27 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://hai.wxs.ro/ai-stuff/claude-code-action-forgejo/Forking Anthropic's Claude Code GitHub Action to work on Forgejo, the adapter pattern, and keeping it synced with upstreamhttps://hai.wxs.ro/ai-stuff/claude-statusline/Mon, 16 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://hai.wxs.ro/ai-stuff/claude-statusline/A two-line status bar for Claude Code with per-session colors, session topics, context/quota bars, and Kubernetes contexthttps://hai.wxs.ro/crossplane/kcl-to-go-functions/Sat, 14 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://hai.wxs.ro/crossplane/kcl-to-go-functions/How replacing Crossplane KCL compositions with custom Go functions slashed CPU usage by 800x and memory by 31x — a lesson learned the hard wayhttps://hai.wxs.ro/migrations/kcl-to-go-functions/Sat, 14 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://hai.wxs.ro/migrations/kcl-to-go-functions/Migrating Crossplane compositions from KCL to custom Go functions for dramatically better resource usagehttps://hai.wxs.ro/tools/krew/Wed, 11 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://hai.wxs.ro/tools/krew/The kubectl plugin manager that turns your CLI into a Swiss Army knife. Here are the plugins I use daily to manage Kubernetes clusters.https://hai.wxs.ro/ai-stuff/claude-md/Tue, 10 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://hai.wxs.ro/ai-stuff/claude-md/How I use CLAUDE.md files to give Claude Code persistent project context and instructionshttps://hai.wxs.ro/tools/radar/Thu, 05 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://hai.wxs.ro/tools/radar/A local-first Kubernetes visibility tool that runs on your laptop, supports all your contexts, and doesn't need to live on your clusterhttps://hai.wxs.ro/guides/tailscale-lxc-proxmox/Mon, 02 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://hai.wxs.ro/guides/tailscale-lxc-proxmox/Set up a dedicated Tailscale LXC container as a subnet router and exit node on Proxmox VEhttps://hai.wxs.ro/migrations/argocd-to-flux/Wed, 28 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://hai.wxs.ro/migrations/argocd-to-flux/Migrating from ArgoCD to Flux — the why, the how, and what I learnedhttps://hai.wxs.ro/ai-stuff/mcp-intro/Tue, 27 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://hai.wxs.ro/ai-stuff/mcp-intro/Model Context Protocol — the open standard that lets AI assistants use external tools and datahttps://hai.wxs.ro/tools/rss/Mon, 26 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://hai.wxs.ro/tools/rss/Why RSS is still the best way to consume content in 2026, and how I use FreshRSS + Fiery Feeds to escape algorithmic feedshttps://hai.wxs.ro/ai-stuff/dot-ai/Mon, 26 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://hai.wxs.ro/ai-stuff/dot-ai/Viktor Farcic's AI-powered Kubernetes operations tool — what it does and how I use it for custom promptshttps://hai.wxs.ro/kubernetes/vpa/Mon, 26 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://hai.wxs.ro/kubernetes/vpa/Using VPA to automatically right-size memory requests based on actual usagehttps://hai.wxs.ro/ai-stuff/ai-tips/Sun, 25 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://hai.wxs.ro/ai-stuff/ai-tips/Hard-won lessons from months of AI-assisted developmenthttps://hai.wxs.ro/recommended/people-and-sites/Sun, 25 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://hai.wxs.ro/recommended/people-and-sites/Blogs, newsletters, and creators worth followinghttps://hai.wxs.ro/kubernetes/priority-classes/Sun, 25 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://hai.wxs.ro/kubernetes/priority-classes/Using Kubernetes PriorityClasses to control pod scheduling and eviction during resource pressurehttps://hai.wxs.ro/recommended/articles-and-videos/Sun, 25 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://hai.wxs.ro/recommended/articles-and-videos/Individual pieces worth bookmarkinghttps://hai.wxs.ro/ai-stuff/chat-prompts/Sun, 25 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://hai.wxs.ro/ai-stuff/chat-prompts/Quick one-liner prompts for AI conversationshttps://hai.wxs.ro/ai-stuff/saved-prompts/Sun, 25 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://hai.wxs.ro/ai-stuff/saved-prompts/Custom AI prompts that encode domain expertise for Kubernetes, CI/CD, and infrastructure taskshttps://hai.wxs.ro/infrastructure/the-stack/Sat, 24 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://hai.wxs.ro/infrastructure/the-stack/A detailed look at the homelab infrastructure — hardware, software, and serviceshttps://hai.wxs.ro/guides/building-this-blog/Sat, 24 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://hai.wxs.ro/guides/building-this-blog/How I built a zero-maintenance blog using Hugo, Forgejo CI, and GitHub Pageshttps://hai.wxs.ro/decisions/crossplane-composition-versioning/Thu, 22 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://hai.wxs.ro/decisions/crossplane-composition-versioning/Why GitOps-synced manifests with automated CI beat OCI package distribution for Crossplane compositions and functions