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I Spent a Week Setting Up a Homeserver and Learned More Than I Expected

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2026-05-22

From zero to a fully self-hosted media server, document manager, home automation hub, and reverse proxy — on a Mac Mini in an apartment with no router access.

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Brindl Backend: From a Monolithic Next.js App to AWS Infrastructure

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2026-05-15

How rebuilding Brindl in Go led me into Docker, AWS infrastructure, CI/CD, and modern cloud architecture.

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