kotona.app
Solution analyst in Helsinki. I work on data platforms, integration-heavy systems, and infrastructure that benefits from being slightly harder to misuse.
The project pages say what each repo is for, how it is shaped, and where the work currently stands. Writing covers narrower notes, arguments, and failure reports that do not need a permanent project page.
sprintctl and kctl are CLI tools for sprint lifecycle management and knowledge extraction. They exist because markdown-based sprint state failed under agentic editing, and the fix was a schema-enforced database rather than better prompts.
Homelab Analytics is a household operating platform that keeps planning, simulation, and policy logic in one repo, with Home Assistant used as a device-facing partner rather than as the core execution model.
Appservice is the operations repo for a Talos-based homelab cluster. It treats reconciliation, encrypted secrets, upgrades, and incident capture as repository state rather than operator memory.
The useful workflow layer for solo agent work is not a giant orchestration stack. It is a local-first system that remembers claims, checkpoints, routing choices, and promotion boundaries without pretending one operator needs a whole platform team.
A live rollback fixed a crashlooping workload, but the more interesting part was needing to suspend reconciliation long enough for the fix to become the desired state instead of a temporary lie.
The monitoring split that held up best was also the less ambitious one: keep Gatus on in-cluster checks, keep edge probes in blackbox-exporter, and stop trying to make one checker own every route shape.
Homelab analytics had enough auth surface to accidentally grow a second identity product. The useful decision was to keep identity proof upstream, keep authorization local, and demote local login to a narrow break-glass path.
Backend-owned contracts only become useful release artifacts once the compatibility tooling is conservative enough to complain about real breakage instead of politely missing it.