Curious things,running hot.
A personal dump of homelab experiments, good food, questionable purchases, travel detours and whatever else refuses to fit in a neat little box.
Four flavours of glorious distraction.
Homelab & IT
Servers, self-hosting and notes written five minutes before I forget how any of it works.
Gadgets & Sound
Hardware, Apple gear, turntables and shiny objects that somehow followed me home.
Food
Recipes, comfort food and edible experiments with varying levels of planning.
Travel
Places, detours and useful observations from somewhere other than the server room.
New notes, old obsessions, occasional useful ideas.
Cloudflare, DDNS and a Changing Home IP: My Actual Setup
CloudOnFire runs from a residential internet connection with an address that can change. The trick is not pretending that a home connection…
The Yellow Retreat: Why Vitra’s Grand Repos Owns the Window
The yellow chair by the open window looks cheerful. Underneath, it is doing serious engineering. Vitra’s Grand Repos, designed by Antonio Citterio…
Burgundy, Yellow and Black: An Eames Lounge Chair in Good Company
A burgundy Eames Lounge Chair does not disappear into a room—and it should not. The deep leather, curved wooden shells and black…
Electric Orange, Perfect Angle: Living With the Louis Poulsen AJ Table
Some lamps illuminate a room. The AJ Table lamp edits it. A sharp cone of light, one decisive diagonal and a colour…
The Long Way West: A Northern Spain Road Trip
The northern coast of Spain does not reveal itself all at once. It arrives in fragments: a flash of Atlantic blue between…
Paella at HORTA, Amsterdam Zuid: Exactly the Right Kind of Excess
There are evenings that call for a delicate sequence of small plates. And there are evenings when someone should put an enormous…
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No content calendar.
No apologies.
CloudOnFire is a personal playground—not a polished publication. Expect deep dives next to quick notes, serious homelab tinkering next to recipes, and strong opinions about things with buttons.
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