How a Mini PC and Kubernetes Changed My Life

Almost a year ago I purchased a Beelink Mini S12 Pro (N100-based mini PC) from AliExpress. Initially I wanted to install only Home Assistant and looked for something simple and cheap. I never thought I would need something more powerful. How wrong I was. Initially I planned to install HA OS, but then thought that installing it using a container and docker-compose would give me more room to test and debug. I knew that if something broke, it would be much easier to restore than using HA OS. ...

My little home server :)

No, AI won’t take jobs from us, not yet.

No, AI won’t take jobs from us, not yet. Claude struggled to write a script to unseal the vault in my k8s cluster until I split the job into small chunks and guided it step by step through what needed to be done.