Long-form writing pulled from the vault.https://juanes.garden/https://juanes.garden/blog/vault-as-database/https://juanes.garden/blog/vault-as-database/After 18 months and 1,318 notes, my Obsidian vault stopped being a 'second brain' and started being something else: a flat-file database with foreign keys.Thu, 21 May 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://juanes.garden/blog/cilium-two-sentences/https://juanes.garden/blog/cilium-two-sentences/You can describe Cilium in two sentences. The interesting part is the diagram you draw in the third.Tue, 12 May 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://juanes.garden/blog/delete-half-vault/https://juanes.garden/blog/delete-half-vault/Pruning a knowledge graph is not the same as pruning a codebase. Here is what changed and what I missed.Thu, 30 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://juanes.garden/blog/homelab-90usd/https://juanes.garden/blog/homelab-90usd/Four Pi 4Bs, a PoE switch, and one weekend. What it taught me about k8s that I could not have learned in EKS.Sat, 18 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://juanes.garden/blog/one-bash-idiom/https://juanes.garden/blog/one-bash-idiom/It is not a one-liner. It is a habit. I run it three times a day, and it never stops paying.Thu, 02 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://juanes.garden/blog/how-i-think-toil/https://juanes.garden/blog/how-i-think-toil/Not all toil is bad toil. Some of it is the price of having taste. The trick is naming which is which.Sat, 21 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://juanes.garden/blog/cucuta-ba-world/https://juanes.garden/blog/cucuta-ba-world/I have moved countries twice for engineering. The thing that surprised me was not the work — it was the writing.Thu, 05 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT