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Deploying Obsidian Sync for My AI Agents
I set up Obsidian Sync for AI agents in a terminal-only Ubuntu Server environment using the official CLI and a continuous systemd service, then retired my old GUI workaround.
You can call me Dufus.
Hello from the command line
I break things, fix them, and write down what actually worked.
Platform engineering notes from a guy who lives in tmux. Real incidents, homelab rebuilds, and AI agent experiments.
- Writing
- 25
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Latest writing.
The AI Internet Outage We're Not Ready For
I think we are underestimating how close we are to a tipping-point outage where failure in core internet systems cascades far beyond one provider incident.
I Deleted My Cloudflare Tunnels: Tailscale Operator for Homelab K8s
I replaced Cloudflare Tunnels with the Tailscale Kubernetes Operator and went from dashboard-heavy setup to GitOps-native service exposure.
AI Already Took My Job
AI already took my job. I just adapted fast enough that nobody noticed.
Headless Obsidian Sync on Linux (No GUI Required)
Obsidian Sync is great — but it assumes you're sitting at a computer with a screen.
The lab.
One server, three Talos nodes, all of it in git. Mid-rebuild.
Proxmox Talos Kubernetes ×3 ArgoCD (GitOps via home.io) 25+ services incl. Immich Tailscale Operator for access
Hardware readout
- Compute
- Dell PowerEdge R720xd40 threads · 256GB ECC RAM
- Network
- UniFi UDM Pro + U7 AP
- Storage
- UNAS Pro 8
- Edge
- Raspberry Pi 4B8GB
Open source.
TechDufus / dotfiles
MaintainedMy terminal-first environment: tmux, Neovim, shell tooling, and scripts that keep my daily workflow fast.
Shell 413 64 Apache-2.0
Updated Sep 26, 2026
TechDufus / oh-my-claude
ActiveI built this after hitting the same Claude Code friction over and over. Opinionated defaults, still fully hackable.
Python 175 9 MIT
Updated Jul 13, 2026
TechDufus / openkanban
ActiveTerminal-native Kanban for tracking parallel agent tasks without leaving tmux.
Go 146 15 AGPL-3.0
Updated Jun 12, 2026
TechDufus / home.io
ActiveHomelab infrastructure-as-code with Terraform + GitOps patterns for repeatable rebuilds and low-drama operations.
Shell 38 5 MIT
Updated Feb 20, 2026
Hello, I'm TechDufus.
I'm Matthew, but most people online know me as TechDufus. I started in PowerShell, moved into Kubernetes platform work, and now spend most of my time on agentic workflows.
If I repeat something twice, I script it on the third pass.
Production Scale
200-node AKS + 100TB+ data platform[1]
Published architecture at Raft Data Platform.
Secure Delivery
High-security + air-gapped platform operations[2]
GitOps and compliance in high-stakes environments.
Agentic Work
Multi-agent workflows with human ownership
Fast iteration with explicit review and rollback.
Say hey.
Questions, ideas, work, or a good DNS horror story. Email's fastest.
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