Home Assistant was reachable from its own VLAN but not from my main network, even though the firewall rule for it looked fine. The real cause was hiding two layers deeper, in a Kubernetes component I'd forgotten was even in the path.

Stuffed potato naan made with sourdough discard instead of throwing it away. Enriched dough, a dry choor choor aloo filling, baked hot.

A codesign failure on a self-hosted Mac runner that looked random but came down to where the WWDR intermediate certificate lived, and how fast the build reached the signing step.

A one-loaf eggless zucchini bread. No eggs, no fuss, and the zucchini keeps it moist for days.

A simple eggless dough for a pasta machine, plus a restaurant-style Alfredo to toss it in.

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.

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.

Neapolitan-style pizza dough made entirely with sourdough starter, no commercial yeast. 24 to 72 hour cold ferment.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The full puratan dhoop samagri as a scalable recipe: adjust the batch size from a small first attempt up to the full traditional quantity, and switch between metric and imperial units.

A home-practice guide to puratan Khalsa maryada, preparing dhoop from a traditional samagri, keeping the jot, and doing daily shastar prakash and seva of Maharaj's saroop.

Short notes on Dasam Granth, Sarabloh Granth, Suraj Prakash, Prem Sumarag, Sau Sakhi and the gupt banis of the dals, what they are and where to begin.

An interactive walkthrough of the two computations behind every Nanakshahi Jantri date, the sankranti that starts a solar month, and the tithi that fixes a gurpurab.

A catalogue of the women of Sikh itihas, from Bebe Nanaki to Rani Jind Kaur, their roles, sacrifices, and the armies they led.

A family tree of the Guru Ghar from Guru Nanak Dev Ji to Guru Gobind Singh Ji, the passing of the jot, the parivaar around it, and the shaheed singhs and singhniyan of every era.

Browse gurpurabs, sangrands, massia and purnmashi by year, following the official Nanakshahi Jantri (Amritsar), plus today's localized nitnem times.

What shaheedi means in Sikhi, and a catalogue of the shaheed singhs and singhniyan, from the tatti tavi of 1606 to the ghallugharas.