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A 10x speedup from one sysctl - Garage on a 1 vCPU VM

The previous post was about uploads into Garage . This one is about reading back out of it, and it's a better story, because the answer had nothing to do with Garage at all. The workload: a small log viewer that points DuckDB at a bucket of vector -written JSON — about 6,600 objects averaging 1.4 KB, 28 MB total — and materializes them into a local DuckDB table. The Garage node is a 1 vCPU, 512 MB…

Garage + nginx-proxy - a self-hosted S3 gotcha

This blog deploys straight from GitLab CI now: middleman build produces a static site, then aws s3 sync pushes it to a bucket. Nothing exotic, except the "S3" on the other end isn't AWS — it's Garage , a lightweight, self-hosted, S3-compatible object store I run at home. It sits on a small Tailscale network, with a gateway node exposing the S3 API and S3 website endpoints behind a shared…

Now 2025

Previous versions: now-2023 now-2024 Physical Woodworking Building cutting boards Building pizza peels (still need to do) Floating bookshelves Preparing a house for sale (sold 9/2025) Preparing a new house...

Setting up PTR (rDNS) records with vyos

Having a DNS server available on your network might seem unusual, but it's actually quite common. We have EdgeOS and OpenWRT with dnsmasq. We have VyOS 1.5 with pdns-resolver. Other dedicated DNS solutions that you can find within someones homelab...

Now 2024

Updated: 2024-02-25 Physical Woodworking Building cutting boards Building pizza peels Being a dad Digital working on mynotes.guru working on homectl (or home in CLI form) - a CLI interface to easily deploy my...

Modern Slat Bench (Nelson Platform clone)

I finally finished the Nelson Platform Bench that I've been working on. I took inspiration from tutorial done by the Family Handyman back in 2019. It suggested the project would take a weekend. It took me 4 years to finish this project.