X1 Carbon Memory Crisis and the zram Solution

Started with ‘why won’t Brave start?’ and ended with compressed RAM giving the equivalent of 16GB+ on hardware that can’t be upgraded.

October 23, 2025 · 10 min · Adam Behn

Building a CI/CD Pipeline Over Tailscale VPN

One of those satisfying days where a pile of “almost working” became a fully operational CI/CD pipeline. The goal: get GitHub Actions runners to test Ansible playbooks against real infrastructure over Tailscale VPN. The Problem I had Ansible playbooks managing Proxmox hosts, but no automated testing. Every change was a manual ansible-playbook --check from my laptop. I wanted PRs to automatically lint and dry-run against the real cluster before merge. ...

October 18, 2025 · 4 min · Adam Behn