Write-ups
Everybody I watch use AI falls into one of two ditches: treat it like an oracle, or write it off after one bad answer. I use it every day, on real work, and I ship the results. This is what I've learned about where it belongs and where it doesn't.
— the site's launch article.
A routine pre-patch health check on my lab's only domain controller turned up something embarrassing: its AD-integrated DNS had never once loaded — not once, in the entire life of the domain. The directory itself was healthy by every measure I could test.
Scrub locally, the AI reads sanitized text only, unscrub locally, verify before anything ships.
Why the sheet diagnoses up from the physical layer and refuses to prescribe a fix.
One dedup store for the whole cluster, and the readings that prove it.
VM-level backups for a load-bearing lab: Veeam locally, restic off-site, restores as the proof.
Fort Worth, TX.
Technical Support Engineer, VMware Cloud Foundation Division at Broadcom. Customer-facing work on VMware vSAN, ESXi, and VMware Cloud Foundation — storage, HCI, and virtualization troubleshooting.
Started in 2018.
Homelab is a 3-host vSAN ESA cluster on ESXi 9.1 running self-hosted services (Nextcloud, Pi-hole DNS, Veeam). That's where the write-ups come from.