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SETKEH Wed · 04 Nov 2026DevSecOps · AI · Cloud · Embedded Systems

DevSecOps Engineer, Electrical Engineering, Doer of things, Fisherman.

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Hi and welcome, my name is James and this is my humble slice of the internet, full of my professional and personal interests. I contract DevSecOps services through Atlas Digital Engineering, run a homelab that doubles as the testbed for everything I build, and write here when something bites me hard enough to be worth remembering.

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recent posts · 7 entries

The vTPM that wouldn't boot: swtpm on Kolla 2025.1 openstack kolla-ansible nova libvirt swtpm vtpm
Why software vTPM instances fail on every host with Kolla-Ansible 2025.1, the three config fixes that don't work in 20.x, and the one-layer image that does.
4 Nov 2026 8 min read
Fixing EVE Frontier's KEEP Monitor on Linux with one Wine patch EVE Frontier Wine Proton Linux DirectWrite Nix GitHub Actions
Why EVE Frontier's in-game browser sat on 'Initializing' under every Proton build, how a web font with an empty style name crashes Wine's DirectWrite, and the GE-Proton-Frontier builds that fix it.
12 Oct 2026 7 min readEVE Frontier
Proxmox to OpenStack without copying a byte: writing a TrueNAS Cinder driver OpenStack Cinder TrueNAS Proxmox Kolla-Ansible Python Homelab ZFS iSCSI OVN
How I moved a production Proxmox estate on a Dell M1000e blade chassis to OpenStack on Kolla-Ansible, adopting the existing ZFS zvols in place with a purpose-built TrueNAS Cinder driver, and the eleven things that went …
12 Oct 2026 12 min readOpenstack-Cloud
How Kubernetes taught me im an idiot DevOps Kubernetes DNS SSL TLS
I Have been a DevSecOps Engineer / Computer Systems Engineer for roughly 12 years now and i love my job there is always somthing to learn including humbling lessons about being pigheadded and this is one of those times …
27 Feb 2022 10 min readKubernetes
Setting up Arduino IDE in NixOS NixOS ESP-01 Arduino buildFHSUserEnv nix-shell
I have recently installed some smart lights in my house in the form of some cheap Mirribela RGB LED bulbs that are powered by ESP32 chips so i can automate some of the lighting functions in my house as my family are …
26 Oct 2021 5 min readNixOS

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projects · github

ESP32-Template-ProjectA ESP32 OTA template that i use for the basis of all my IOT projects
HerpsControllerESP32 Based Herps tank Environment Controller
OceanusA fast, simple selfhosted screenshot storage server with API
ContainersMy Docker and RKT containers

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