https://notes.thornbush.nl/tags/foundations/Recent content in Foundations on thornbushHugo -- gohugo.ioen© 2026 [thornbush.nl](https://notes.thornbush.nl)Mon, 11 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://notes.thornbush.nl/notes/just-the-beginning/Mon, 11 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://notes.thornbush.nl/notes/just-the-beginning/Nine phases. One month. What it actually means to build infrastructure for your family.https://notes.thornbush.nl/notes/flipping-the-switch/Sun, 10 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://notes.thornbush.nl/notes/flipping-the-switch/Nine phases of building. One evening of proving it actually works.https://notes.thornbush.nl/notes/what-if-it-breaks/Fri, 01 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://notes.thornbush.nl/notes/what-if-it-breaks/On backup gaps nobody noticed, a break-glass matrix for nine services, an Authentik misconfiguration that locked out every user including the admin, and writing a recovery document for someone who is not you.https://notes.thornbush.nl/notes/filling-the-stack/Mon, 27 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://notes.thornbush.nl/notes/filling-the-stack/One week, three services: file storage, photo management, and a financial administration stack built from scratch. On pragmatic exceptions, a data model that grew to fifty entities, and a backup drive that had never been in fstab.https://notes.thornbush.nl/notes/the-wiki-and-the-ledger/Sun, 26 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://notes.thornbush.nl/notes/the-wiki-and-the-ledger/On documentation as infrastructure, the fragility of OIDC under URL migration, why Firefly III failed a single architectural test, and the beginning of a financial data model that grew more ambitious than expected.https://notes.thornbush.nl/notes/opening-the-door-carefully/Mon, 20 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://notes.thornbush.nl/notes/opening-the-door-carefully/On the tension between privacy infrastructure and connecting it to the internet, the first time the server worked from outside the house, and why monitoring is always the last thing you build and the first thing you wish you’d built earlier.https://notes.thornbush.nl/notes/the-constitution/Sat, 18 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://notes.thornbush.nl/notes/the-constitution/On writing a strategic framework before anything works, revising it when it becomes honest, and why three documents together — constitution, architecture, and baseline — are the difference between a project and a system.https://notes.thornbush.nl/notes/the-foundation/Sat, 18 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://notes.thornbush.nl/notes/the-foundation/Seven days building the base stack — PostgreSQL, Vaultwarden, Authentik, CrowdSec, BorgBackup — and the question of why large organisations can’t do what one person can do on a Saturday afternoon.https://notes.thornbush.nl/notes/starting-before-youre-ready/Sun, 12 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://notes.thornbush.nl/notes/starting-before-youre-ready/On buying hardware before you’re ready, over-documenting before a single cable is connected, and the unexpected satisfaction of getting the basics right on a Saturday afternoon.https://notes.thornbush.nl/notes/why-i-built-a-server/Wed, 01 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://notes.thornbush.nl/notes/why-i-built-a-server/On digital sovereignty, family continuity, and why I started building again after years of handing my digital life to Big Tech.