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What I build after hours to go deeper: infrastructure as code, Zero Trust access, security monitoring and AI tooling. Architecture and lessons, with the sensitive bits left out.

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  • Oct 16, 2026 5 min read

    Teaching my SIEM to triage itself: AI-assisted alert handling with a council of models

    How I am building an alert-handling layer on top of Wazuh: a local LLM writes first-pass summaries, I triage with a written playbook, and a council of models gates any automated patching, failing safe to high risk.

    • wazuh
    • ai
    • automation
    • security

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  • Oct 14, 2026 4 min read

    Homelab as code: nothing gets applied by hand

    How my four-node Proxmox cluster is described in Terraform and Ansible and driven entirely from GitLab CI, with reviewed plans, a manual approval gate and secrets loaded at run time.

    • terraform
    • ansible
    • proxmox
    • gitlab-ci

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  • Oct 10, 2026 4 min read

    A Zero Trust front door with Cloudflare Tunnel and Access

    Moving my domain to Cloudflare and publishing homelab services through replicated Tunnel connectors, with Access on every route and JWT validation at the connector.

    • cloudflare
    • zero-trust
    • tailscale

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  • Oct 6, 2026 3 min read

    Building MCP servers so AI agents can run my homelab, safely

    Why I wrote my own Model Context Protocol servers for Proxmox, Wazuh, Tailscale and Jira, and the scoped, read-mostly design that keeps an AI agent useful without handing it the keys.

    • mcp
    • ai
    • automation
    • security

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  • Oct 2, 2026 4 min read

    Security monitoring: Wazuh SIEM and Suricata IDS on a home network

    A home security monitoring stack built around two complementary lenses: Wazuh for hosts and as the central log and alert pipeline, Suricata for network traffic, and what I learned about tuning them.

    • wazuh
    • suricata
    • security

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