Engineer. Builder. Hockey player.
Always Day 1.
Writing
A code quality review of the monitoring stack found three critical bugs — including one that had silently broken all Docker log collection since day one. Sometimes the most dangerous failures are the ones that don't make any noise.
The juntgen.com Astro site was the last unversioned snowflake in the homelab — no git history, no IaC, 8 blog posts behind. We moved it into the homelab monorepo and made it deployable with the same command as everything else.
About
I've been writing software and running Linux systems for 26 years. Over that time I've learned that the best engineers never stop being beginners — there's always a harder problem, a better abstraction, a smarter approach. That's what "Always Day 1" means to me.
My homelab is where I learn without limits: Proxmox, Docker, Ansible, Kubernetes, networking, security. When I'm not at a keyboard, I'm on the ice playing hockey or spending time with my family.
This site is where I document the journey — the wins, the failures, and everything in between.