SRE by day, baker and tinkerer by night. Writing about infrastructure, Kubernetes, Terraform, home networking, Rust, and sourdough.

  • The Homelab Grows Up: Proxmox, k3s, and Real GitOps

    Moving my homelab from Docker containers running on the hypervisor to a k3s cluster with Gitea, ArgoCD, sealed secrets, and automated dependency updates — and every gotcha along the way.

    tech 5 min read
  • Nanakshahi Calendar, Rebuilt from the Jantri

    A ground-up rebuild of my Nanakshahi calendar: dates extracted from the printed Jantri, an astronomical engine for future years, and honest labels on every date.

    tech 3 min read
  • Sourdough Neapolitan Pizza Dough

    Neapolitan pizza dough made entirely with sourdough starter — no commercial yeast. 48–72 hour cold ferment.

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  • Sourdough Boule

    Open-crumb sourdough boule baked in a Dutch oven. Bulk ferment, overnight cold proof, and a scored crust.

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  • Soft Fluffy Sandwich Bread

    A soft, enriched sandwich loaf made with bread flour, milk, butter, and egg. Stays tender for days.

    cooking 1 min read
  • Pizza Bianca with Quick White Sauce

    White pizza with a quick crème fraîche-style sauce made from heavy cream and yogurt. No cooking required.

    cooking 1 min read
  • Pearled Couscous Salad with Chickpeas

    Pearled couscous with chickpeas, cucumber, cherry tomatoes, olives, feta, and a lemon-Dijon dressing. Good warm or cold.

    cooking 1 min read
  • No-Cook Neapolitan Tomato Sauce

    Authentic no-cook Neapolitan pizza sauce — whole peeled tomatoes crushed by hand, salt, olive oil, basil. Nothing else.

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  • Neapolitan Pizza Dough (Home Oven)

    Cold-fermented Neapolitan-style pizza dough for a home oven with a pizza steel. Includes a whole wheat variant.

    cooking 2 min read
  • Nanakshahi Calendar Update

    Nanakshahi calendar ICS update — daily Nanakshahi dates now show in your calendar app alongside Gurpurabs, no extra app needed.

    tech 1 min read
  • EthniCal: Fostering Inclusivity Through Cultural Awareness

    EthniCal — a calendar that surfaces cultural and religious holidays from underrepresented communities, built for workplace inclusivity.

    tech 3 min read
  • Home Network Journey

    How I built and evolved my home network — VLANs, self-hosted services, hardware choices, and the lessons from getting it wrong first.

    tech 18 min read
  • From Kado to Rust: The Late-Night Coding Saga Continues

    Building a badge generator in Rust as a follow-up to Kado — more late-night coding, a new language, and lessons learned.

    tech 3 min read
  • Kado: Weaving Infrastructure Management into Late-Night Code

    The story behind Kado — a Go tool for infrastructure management, built in late-night sessions after the toddler went to sleep.

    tech 3 min read
  • Media Sheet

    A Google Apps Script that uses OMDB API to build a family movie tracking sheet — what we've watched, what we haven't.

    tech 2 min read
  • Nanakshahi Calendar

    A script that generates an ICS file for Nanakshahi dates and Sikh religious holidays, subscribable in any calendar app.

    tech 1 min read
  • Terraform-GCP-K8s: A Jenkins DevOps story

    In this post we are going to bootstrap a disposable Kubernetes cluster in Google Cloud Platform using Terraform. Once we have the cluster ready, we will use ...

    tech 21 min read

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