Making it work.
Eventually.
Thirty years of shipping software, wrestling infrastructure into shape, and calling the right people when I'm stuck. This is where I write about what I've learned.
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Featured27 Mar 2026
Multi-Platform Docker Builds from an M1 Mac Using Your Synology NAS as a Remote Builder
Building multi-arch Docker images from an M1 Mac for an x86 Synology NAS hits a Docker API version mismatch you can't fix from either end. The workaround is running BuildKit as a standalone container on the NAS and connecting to it as a remote buildx driver.
8 min read
Featured27 Mar 2026
Running OpenClaw on Your Synology NAS — Hardened for Always-On Homelab Use
OpenClaw is upfront about its security model: it's a personal agent that trusts its operator, and it tells you to harden it before exposing it. This post implements those recommendations as a Portainer stack on a Synology NAS, adding a Squid egress proxy to whitelist outbound domains, Docker secrets for credential isolation, and a read-only root filesystem.
12 min read