Building things, and writing it down
RSS FeedI'm Walid, a freelance hands-on solutions architect based in Paris. By day I design and build cloud and generative AI systems; the rest of the time I build my own tools and run a homelab. This is where I write about all of it.
Recent Posts
Activity Reports for Freelancers, Filled In by an AI Agent over MCP
Updated:Presto, a self-hosted activity report tool for freelancers: mark worked days on a calendar, export the monthly PDF, or let an AI agent do it over MCP.
Homelab GitOps With Docker Compose: Signed Commits, Pulled Every Minute
How my homelab deploys from git: Compose projects on one VM per trust tier, a container that pulls main every minute and applies only commits I signed.
How I Run My Homelab in 2026: Proxmox, Docker Compose and Tailscale
Updated:My homelab today: one Proxmox host in a 16U rack, Docker Compose apps on one VM per trust tier, network tiers like a cloud VPC, and Tailscale as the only door.
My Homelab Is Written by Coding Agents
Updated:How coding agents write my homelab: the AGENTS.md files and skills they follow, the guardrails, the incidents that became rules, and the risk I accept.
