// notes from the rack
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.