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A guide to building a disposable remote dev environment on homelab Kubernetes with Coder to keep your PC clean, and its relevance in the AI agent era.
How I built a Discord BOT in Go to securely interact with my private homelab server without exposing it to the internet.
How I joined GMKtec EVO-X2 (Ryzen AI MAX+ 395) to my k3s cluster as a GPU node via Incus VFIO, covering APU-specific passthrough gotchas.
Running llama.cpp on my k3s + AMD GPU cluster kept hitting memory access faults. The culprit: a bug in MES firmware 0x83 shipped with amdgpu-dkms-firmware.
I set up Strix Halo as a k3s worker via Incus VM + VFIO, then hit a wall: once the GPU enters a dirty state, recovery is impossible without bare metal.
device-plugin gives the GPU to one Pod at a time. Here's why I switched to DRA on k3s, and three Strix Halo-specific issues I had to patch around.
How I put an ARC self-hosted runner inside my homelab K8s cluster so GitHub Actions workflows can reach internal services without tunnels.
Using Claude Code skills to automate k3s diagnosis and repair on my homelab, plus LLM inference tuning that pushed Hermes TPS from 21 t/s to 32+ t/s.
