McGarrah Technical Blog

Building a Draft Preview Site for Jekyll — Part 1: Exploring the Options

· 7 min read
I wanted a way to share unfinished blog posts with reviewers before publishing. Sounds simple — but GitHub Pages has no authentication, serves one site per repo, and my drafts are already in a public repository. Here's every option I considered and why most of them didn't survive.

ZFS Boot Mirrors on Proxmox 8 for the Homelab - Part 3

· 9 min read
Migrating a Proxmox ZFS boot mirror from large spinning rust HDDs to smaller SSDs — why a fresh install with a UEFI upgrade is the practical path.

Managing Context and Rules Across Multiple AI Coding Assistants

· 8 min read
Every AI coding assistant has its own proprietary rules format. Here's how to maintain a single source of truth that works across Amazon Q, Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Windsurf, Gemini, and the rest.

ZFS Boot Mirrors on Proxmox 8 for the Homelab - Part 2

· 13 min read
When both drives in your ZFS boot mirror fail simultaneously, you can't resilver your way out. Here's the full procedure for a Proxmox fresh install that preserves your Ceph OSDs and rejoins the cluster — based on a real harlan node recovery.

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