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notes from building it myself, one boot log at a time

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Guides for the stuff I actually built, not the stuff that already worked.

Partition tables, boot loaders, firewalls, the odd VPS — written up as I go, so future-me (and maybe you) doesn't have to re-derive it from a forum post from 2013.Continue_

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[done]2026-07-31· 9 min read

Building an Alpine Linux server from a bare qcow2 disk

Partitioning with fdisk, a chroot install of Alpine's minirootfs, extlinux instead of grub, and getting the whole thing scripted end to end — no installer required.

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[done]2026-07-18· 6 min read

Dropbear, doas, and nftables: a lean login path

Skipping OpenSSH and sudo for something smaller — root login disabled, key auth only, and a default-drop firewall that still lets you in.

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[in progress]drafting

Caddy, WireGuard, and a static site on a real VPS

Taking the lab build from a QEMU disk image to a public domain with automatic HTTPS — and what changes once the network isn't pretend anymore.

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I document infrastructure the way I wish more people did: the dead ends included. Everything here has actually been run, usually twice — once wrong, once as written.