Case studies
A growing collection of engineering write-ups — infrastructure projects I've built, lessons I've learned, and patterns I'd carry into client work. Most are based on my own personal lab; some are client projects anonymized where appropriate.
Self-hosted Dutch business web presence
Ghost CMS, CloudPanel, Cloudflare, Brevo SMTP, DKIM/DMARC, and the whole "professional web presence on a VPS you control" stack - what I built for I mean IT, hexie.dev, and what I'd build for a client.
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Authentik SSO
How I added Authentik-based SSO to every service in my lab using Traefik forward auth - the three design modes, the two cookie bugs, and what I'd do differently for a client.
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Rebuilding a monitoring stack from scratch
Why I nuked my working Prometheus + Grafana setup and rebuilt it properly - and the design decisions I'd carry directly to a client engagement.
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Docker Compose standardization
How I turned two years of accumulated Docker Compose drift across 40 services into a maintainable, template-driven pattern - and what I'd do differently next time.
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Moving security camera off jsmpeg to WebRTC
Upgrading a Frigate NVR from jsmpeg to modern browser streaming - the Docker networking gotcha, the NAT traversal problem, and the counterintuitive finding that MSE beats WebRTC for security cameras.
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