https://thyfwxit.com/blog From the bench, not the books. Posts about the things I actually build and run. Cloudflare Workers, Proxmox home labs, vanilla JS, hardware repair. en-us Fri, 22 May 2026 12:00:00 GMT https://thyfwxit.com/blog/switching-to-free-gemini-2-5-flash https://thyfwxit.com/blog/switching-to-free-gemini-2-5-flash AI Fri, 22 May 2026 12:00:00 GMT I was paying real money for Gemini API calls and did not notice until the invoice. The model swap is a four character change in a string literal. The actual fix was the key, not the model. A short story about paying attention to your billing tab. https://thyfwxit.com/blog/why-my-home-lab-runs-proxmox https://thyfwxit.com/blog/why-my-home-lab-runs-proxmox Home Lab Fri, 22 May 2026 12:00:00 GMT A two node Proxmox cluster running the DNS, home automation, storage, and monitoring for the whole house. Why the home lab quietly beats a managed VPS for the work I actually do. https://thyfwxit.com/blog/cloudflare-workers-over-render https://thyfwxit.com/blog/cloudflare-workers-over-render Infrastructure Mon, 18 May 2026 12:00:00 GMT Free tier sleep was killing the first visit to my AI terminal. Migrating the backend to Cloudflare Workers cut cold start latency to zero and warm latency from over a second to under 100ms. The real migration story, trade offs included.