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Blog — Blake McCarn
Blake McCarn
August 15, 2026
Managing AI Coding Agents Across Providers with Herdr
AI / Developer Tools
Blake McCarn
August 4, 2026
What SST v4 Gets Right for Full-Stack AWS Applications
Cloud / Developer Tools
Blake McCarn
August 1, 2026
Terraforming My Homelab: Rebuild the Shells, Protect the Data
Infrastructure / IaC
Blake McCarn
July 25, 2026
A Boring Kubernetes Homelab: Talos, Flux, Longhorn, TrueNAS
Infrastructure / Kubernetes
Blake McCarn
June 23, 2026
Tailscale First, Cloudflare Tunnel Still in the Stack
Infrastructure / Networking
Blake McCarn
May 19, 2026
Building a Monitoring Stack That Actually Works: Grafana, Prometheus, Loki, Tempo, and the Bugs I Found
Infrastructure / Observability
Blake McCarn
April 11, 2026
Cloudflare Zero Trust for Browser-Facing Homelab Services
Infrastructure / Security
Blake McCarn
April 8, 2026
Why I Self-Host My LLM Proxy (And What Routing 1M+ Calls Through LiteLLM Taught Me)
AI / Infrastructure
Blake McCarn
April 7, 2026
Certificate-Based AWS Auth With IAM Roles Anywhere: No IAM Users, No Static Keys
Cloud / Security
Blake McCarn
April 6, 2026
Building a Personal Knowledge Graph Over Your Document Archive
AI / Infrastructure