Aaron Santo is a DevOps engineer and software developer in Utah who builds apps, homelabs and infrastructure as code, and writes about the nerdy parts.https://www.lilstrudel.io/https://www.lilstrudel.io/blog/homelab/https://www.lilstrudel.io/blog/homelab/Talos Linux, Cilium speaking BGP to a MikroTik, Rook-Ceph on NVMe and Flux holding it all together. Three years, 256 commits, and at least three commits titled 'fix: again?'.Sun, 04 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTkuberneteshomelabtaloscephgitopshttps://www.lilstrudel.io/blog/bgp-hold-timers/https://www.lilstrudel.io/blog/bgp-hold-timers/My Kubernetes API VIP kept vanishing from the network on a perfectly regular schedule. The cause was three BGP speakers with three different opinions about keepalives, and the fix turned up a Terraform provider bug.Sat, 03 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTkubernetesbgpnetworkingterraformhomelabhttps://www.lilstrudel.io/blog/minecraft-scale-to-zero/https://www.lilstrudel.io/blog/minecraft-scale-to-zero/Running a fleet of Minecraft servers on six small nodes means idle ones have to cost nothing. Getting there meant fighting Flux over one field and discovering Velero had been backing up nothing at all.Fri, 02 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTkubernetesfluxvelerohomelabhttps://www.lilstrudel.io/blog/discord-audio-pacer/https://www.lilstrudel.io/blog/discord-audio-pacer/How discord-audio-streamer turns ffmpeg output into a steady stream of Opus frames: absolute deadlines instead of sleeps, two opposite ring-buffer policies, holding audio until encryption is ready, and manufacturing silence for Windows.Thu, 01 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTgoaudiodiscordconcurrencyhttps://www.lilstrudel.io/blog/cgo-two-heaps/https://www.lilstrudel.io/blog/cgo-two-heaps/The first release of discord-audio-streamer died on startup. The second died the moment it joined a voice channel. Both were about which C runtime the Go binary was linked against, and CI now checks it on every build.Wed, 30 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTgocgowindowscihttps://www.lilstrudel.io/blog/dotfiles/https://www.lilstrudel.io/blog/dotfiles/Arch, Hyprland, Ghostty, tmux with zero plugins, zsh with two and Neovim with twelve on native vim.pack. A 36-line plugin loader, a hand-written prompt, and the numbers that justified each cut.Tue, 29 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTlinuxneovimzshtmuxhyprland