Intro
I’m an infrastructure and reliability engineer based in Japan. Over the past decade, my work has centered on mission-critical environments where resilience isn't optional—scaling high-throughput mail delivery platforms, distributed observability, and enterprise server architectures.
This site is an extension of my homelab—a place where I document cloud infrastructure automation with Terraform, architectural notes, and deep-dive technical write-ups. I take a practical, hands-on approach: understanding how systems work under the hood, cutting through unnecessary complexity, and building setups that hold up under real production pressure.
Notes from the homelab: engineering deep-dives, infrastructure setups, and lessons learned along the way. View all articles
Normal people plug in one ISP router and go outside. Here is my planned home network blueprint for six UniFi U6 In-Wall units, seven VLANs, two remote workers on quarantined corporate laptops, and smart plugs with the networking stack of a toaster.
How home-lab.net is planned so the public sees a fast static site on CloudFront, while the same domain at home or over WireGuard leads to a private Proxmox core—without opening a single port on the home router.
After 49 attempts on the home-lab.net logo, I needed one more mark for the bridge that connects my homelab to the outside world. Here is how we dodged VPN clichés and accidental music-player icons.
How I plan to replace the last third-party SaaS integration on my static sites—using a CloudFront-fronted Lambda, stateless WebCrypto proof-of-work, and direct RFC 5322 .eml drops into the existing S3 mail relay.
Last year I failed to shoehorn Umami Analytics into AWS Aurora DSQL. Here is the simpler, near-$0 architecture conceptualized for HOME-LAB.net: serverless Lambda + S3 edge ingestion paired with an outbound pull into local PostgreSQL on ZFS.
How to self-host private email without port forwarding, dynamic IP blacklists, or reboot bounces—combining Amazon SES, an encrypted S3 relay bucket, Stalwart, and Roundcube.
Why keeping cold spares, temperamental memory, and decommissioned enterprise switches is an operational trap—and the brutal solar and battery reality check of continuous idle rack draw.
I can be found with a camera sometimes Check out some pictures
Quick notes, homelab updates, and micro-discoveries from everyday tinkering. Browse the full log stream
Checked in on the conifers in the yard now that they have had a full year in the ground. Overall I'm content with how they have settled in—everything has…
Added - Modular Site-Wide Feature Toggles & Configurable Homepage: Every major section and feed (home, about, now, blog, photography, log, tags, contact,…
Added - Interactive Diagram Zoom & Pan: Technical diagrams across /blog/ articles now include an interactive zoom modal with smooth pinch-to-zoom,…
Changed & Optimized - Ergonomic Floating Navigation: The floating section navigator now docks conveniently at the top of the screen on desktop and in the…
Outfitted the dog with a newfangled Tractive GPS tracker today. The packaging and unboxing experience were genuinely well thought out, and the companion app is…
Added - The Navigator Open Source Release: Extracted the site engine and multi-region AWS blueprint into a standalone open-source starter theme on GitLab and…
Added - Dedicated Photo Permalinks: Every photograph now has its own dedicated full-width permalink page with location details, camera notes, and easy social…
