Todd Ludington
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The same work, read as through-lines instead of a list. Each thread is a hand-picked arc, oldest ideas to newest.

Five lines, one map. Click a line or an interchange station to focus; everything the map shows is also written below.

Monitoring, twenty years running 4 stops

I have run monitoring as a managed service for nearly two decades, and the homelab is where the practice sharpens. This thread follows one idea across all of it: watch everything, alert honestly, and let the failures teach.

May 2025 Homelab Observability Stack
Jan 2026 HamCation Monitoring
May 2026 Homelab Service Catalog and Relationships View story New
Jun 2026 Self-Healing Homelab: Three Failures, One Evening story New
Event technology that cannot fail 8 stops

One weekend a year, twenty thousand people show up and the software has to work. This thread walks the platform that runs HamCation, and the apps around it that scan badges, feed volunteers, and keep the prize drawings honest.

Jan 2026 HamCation Event Technology Platform story
Jan 2026 HamCation Security
Jan 2026 HamCation Meals
Jan 2026 HamCation Badge Printer
Jan 2026 HamCation Display Kiosks
Jan 2026 HamCation Prizes
Jan 2026 HamCation Volunteers
Jan 2026 HamCation Monitoring
AI as a coworker 3 stops

I treat AI tooling as a practical trade, not a spectacle. These projects connect assistants to real operational systems and hold their output to production standards.

Nov 2025 AI Terminal Workflows story
Sep 2025 MCP Servers for Operational Platforms story
Jun 2026 Compass — Local-First Terms-of-Service Analyzer story New
The network underneath 5 stops

Everything above depends on the network being boring. Segmentation, DNS, certificates, and throughput — the quiet work that makes the rest possible.

2025 Homelab VLAN Consolidation and Security Model
Feb 2025 Network Segmentation & Migration
2025 Internal DNS and Reverse Proxy Design
Jun 2025 Caddy, TLS, and DNS-01
Nov 2025 NAS Migration and Throughput Optimization
Practical automation 3 stops

If I have to do something twice, it gets automated. Small, dependable automations that keep paying rent long after the weekend they were built.

Dec 2025 Ansible + Fedora for Plex with Hardware Transcoding
Nov 2025 VoIP Workflow Automation Platform story
Jan 2026 HamCation Display Kiosks