Hardware · software · stack

Boring tools, used well.

Nothing on this list is novel. The interesting part is that one person keeps it all running together - cohesively, in production, without a platform team.

Orchestration

k3s
Tailscale
Headscale
systemd

Runtimes

Python
Node
PHP

Frontend

React
TypeScript
Vite

Data

MySQL
SQLite
Redis

AI

Ollama
MCP
local LLMs

Observability

Prometheus
Grafana
Loki

Edge

Apache
NGINX
Caddy

Ops

git
1Password
cron

The hardware behind it.

k3s cluster5 control/worker servers · 7 k3s nodes

GPU boxes2 inference / training nodes for local LLMs

Mac Studioson-prem production & render (Strange Music)

Strainge-BackupUNAS Pro · 128 TB · 3-2-1 strategy

StorageZFS mirrors · cold archive · offsite

MeshTailscale + self-hosted Headscale

Workstationsdev, render, and lab/staging boxes

EdgeKC + PDX ingress, reverse-proxied