https://archworks.co/posts/Workshop notes, build logs, reverse engineering, and other rabbit holes.enTue, 12 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://archworks.co/posts/decoding-the-k2-plus/Tue, 12 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://archworks.co/posts/decoding-the-k2-plus/The K2 Plus runs a Klipper fork with a 1.88 MB Cython binary at the core of it. What is inside, how I got there, and what surprised me along the way.https://archworks.co/posts/meshcore-heltec-nrf52-solar/Fri, 08 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://archworks.co/posts/meshcore-heltec-nrf52-solar/A LoRa mesh that does not need cell towers, ISPs, or anyone's permission. End-to-end encrypted, kilometre range, runs on a battery the size of a credit card. Plus what it lets me extend into: server comms, sensor telemetry, Home Assistant feeds.https://archworks.co/posts/one-ip-one-port-vless-reality/Sun, 03 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://archworks.co/posts/one-ip-one-port-vless-reality/A real public website and a VLESS+Reality tunnel on the same machine, the same address, the same TCP port. DPI cannot tell them apart, because neither of them is lying.https://archworks.co/posts/handing-my-gpu-to-a-vm/Tue, 28 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://archworks.co/posts/handing-my-gpu-to-a-vm/Single-GPU passthrough on Linux is the constrained-hardware path. It works. Plasma does not survive it. Here is the trade-off.https://archworks.co/posts/ansible-clean-bootstrap/Wed, 22 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://archworks.co/posts/ansible-clean-bootstrap/A bootstrap that takes a host described as YAML and gives back a configured running server. Eleven distros, five hypervisors, one playbook, deterministic end state. Source on git.archworks.co/sandwich/Ansible-Bootstrap.https://archworks.co/posts/kubernetes-gitops-layers/Sat, 18 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://archworks.co/posts/kubernetes-gitops-layers/How I run a 6-node Kubernetes cluster as one git repo, pushed to master, picked up by ArgoCD, and never touched with kubectl in anger.https://archworks.co/posts/reverse-tunnel-public-without-exposed/Tue, 14 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://archworks.co/posts/reverse-tunnel-public-without-exposed/A tiny VPS, a WireGuard tunnel, and an OPNsense at home. The architecture that lets a residential IP host public services without ever being the public IP.https://archworks.co/posts/self-hosted-llms-subagents-skills/Sun, 12 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://archworks.co/posts/self-hosted-llms-subagents-skills/Three concrete layers on top of a local model: model tiering, subagents with isolated context, and skills that wrap APIs as one tool call. The discipline matters more than the model size.https://archworks.co/posts/freecad-and-amateur-rocketry/Wed, 08 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://archworks.co/posts/freecad-and-amateur-rocketry/Parametric CAD from scratch through one project: nosecones, fin sections, motor mounts, recovery bays. The YouTube channel that made FreeCAD click. The amateur-rocketry hobby it landed me in.https://archworks.co/posts/esp32-quadcopter-from-flix/Mon, 30 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://archworks.co/posts/esp32-quadcopter-from-flix/Forking okalachev/flix as a starting point, printing the frame, learning the IMU pipeline, and getting humbled by every step between 'motor spins' and 'thing hovers'.https://archworks.co/posts/ender3-v2-neo-pi-zero-internal/Sun, 22 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://archworks.co/posts/ender3-v2-neo-pi-zero-internal/Klipper on a Pi Zero 2W living inside the printer base, powered and serial-fed from the stock display header. Plus direct-drive conversion, dual Z, custom heatbreaks, and the rest of the modding rabbit hole.