Make the Internet more human

I follow creators like Marighoul and Answer in Progress, and this Blog is my attempt at the same thing: human curated content, or things I built myself.

What is this 'IndieWeb'?

The IndieWeb is a movement of people trying to create their own websites. An important aspect is the desire to make the web more human, by avoiding AI generated content and discovery driven by algorithms. This offers creative freedom, which classic social media websites don't offer anymore.
Recently some people started using websites like Neocities to create their own page and connect them in webrings, which mimic how the Internet worked in the 90s.

Longhorn on the cluster nodes, ZFS on a NAS, and what decides between them

Two storage systems in one homelab: why this website's containers moved to NFS, what a vendor refund actually paid for a failed SSD, and where the backups land.

One Caddy in front, one nginx and git-sync Pod per site

How the sites I host ended up split into separate Deployments behind a shared Caddy, and what it took to get there: one container holding everything, a restart on every content update, the rate limits that followed, and the merge that broke things until the volume moved.

A small pod that keeps my records pointing at my router

Why my DNS updates run inside the cluster instead of on a machine underneath it: a small Go program, the ConfigMap it reads, and the API move that made me rewrite the client.

Three N100s, a NAS, and a whole lot of YAML

The cluster behind this site, from a Q8200 NAS with a towel in front of it to three silent mini PCs: two storage tiers on purpose, MetalLB on bare metal, GitOps, and the parts that broke, including the outage that took all three nodes down.

Building a silent 14B AI inference server in K3s

A 2017 AMD Vega Frontier Edition is famous for two things: a 250W power draw and a blower fan you can hear through a wall. I turned mine into a silent Ollama node.

My very simple implementation of a kanban board

A zero-dependency kanban board that runs entirely in the browser. I built Bantō for my own projects: no account, no cloud, no framework. Just HTML, CSS, and vanilla JavaScript. You can try it at banto.erik-schuetze.dev.

Need a quick peek at all the different Food sources and their effects in Peak?

I created a simple Cheatsheet for the game Peak, which shows all the different Food sources and their effects in a compact way.