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Mar 21, 2026
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Build Your First MCP Server: Give Claude Superpowers Over Your Homelab
Learn how to build a custom MCP server in Python that lets Claude directly query your Kubernetes cluster, check running containers, and manage your homelab. No more copy-pasting terminal output.
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Mar 15, 2026
•11 min read
How to Think Like a Platform Engineer: Introducing Greybeard's Platform Engineering Pack
A thinking tool to catch bad platform decisions before they cost 6 months of engineering time
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Mar 3, 2026
•11 min read
Platform Engineering for Solo Builders: How I Built an IDP for a One-Person SaaS
You don't need a 200-person engineering org to benefit from an internal developer platform. Here's how I set up Port.io, Terraform, SonarCloud, and Jira for Herp Ops, a SaaS I build alone.
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