Bidirectional SMB File Sharing Between Linux and Windows 11
Share a Linux ~/project to Windows Explorer via Samba, and mount a Windows D:\project share back on Linux via CIFS — both over Tailscale.
Homelab
ESXi Is Dead: Migrating Your Homelab to Proxmox VE
Broadcom killed the free ESXi license. How to move a homelab to Proxmox VE: installation, honest pros and cons, and VM migration without rebuilding everything.
Tailscale: Your Phone Is a Terminal
Put Tailscale on your Android phone and your home server is one tap away: SSH, web UIs, and dev previews from anywhere.
I Replaced Port Forwarding with Tailscale Across 4 Machines (and What Broke)
No open ports, no DDNS, no router config. How I built a private tailnet across a Windows laptop, a Fedora VM, an Oracle VPS, and an ephemeral cloud VM — and the failures that taught me how it really works.
Zero-Byte Deploys and Zombie Jobs: A Failover War Story
Building a 60-second failover standby for my dev environment — and the two outages that taught me to never trust an all-green deploy chain.