// notes from the rack
August 29, 2026·10 min read
I priced my homelab as if I had to rent it — 22 Proxmox guests and a six-node k3s cluster, live numbers, August 2026. On-demand AWS came to $49,452 a year. The electricity bill it replaces is $274.
August 26, 2026·31 min read
The 23 most profitable verified traders on Kinfo, audited from their raw trade rows and ranked on whether the profit is real. One record inverts to a loss. The best win rate on the board ranks 22nd of 23.
August 18, 2026·21 min read
Eleven months after three mini PCs first said Ready: three control planes, a six-day outage nobody noticed, a hardware diagnosis that was completely wrong, and what the whole cluster actually cost.
August 16, 2026·14 min read
Turning on the Intel vPro silicon that six second-hand office PCs had been carrying, unused, the whole time — and flashing their firmware from across the house.
September 28, 2025·3 min read
Building a Kubernetes cluster at home on three second-hand HP EliteDesk Minis for $240 — the hardware that fought back, and the K3s install that finally took.