About
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Technococo is a documentation site about building and operating personal infrastructure.
Most people live inside other people’s systems. Your photos live on Google’s servers. Your calendar lives on Apple’s. Your smart home runs on Amazon’s cloud. You’re a guest in someone else’s architecture. This site documents what it looks like when you decide not to be.
What Lives Here
A layered approach to infrastructure:
Foundational
Essays & Origin Story — Why you’d build this. What you’re actually choosing when you opt out of cloud services. The philosophy before the implementation.
Technical
Deep Dives — Services, pipelines, architecture. How the system works, one component at a time. One post, one story, one reason it’s there.
Ongoing
Documentation & Updates — Latest work, experiments, problems solved, problems encountered. The site grows as the infrastructure grows.
Thoughts
Feeds & Ideas — Real-time updates, technical notes, working edge of what’s being built and tested.
Who This Is For
You, if you:
- Own or are considering a home lab — and want to understand how to build it without starting from zero
- Want to move off cloud services — but don’t want to lose functionality or spend years figuring out the plumbing
- Are interested in data ownership — and what it actually costs (in time, complexity, and attention) to maintain it
- Like precise technical work — written by someone actively building rather than selling, with honest accounting of trade-offs
The Approach
Everything documented here comes from a real, running network. Nothing is theoretical. Posts emerge as problems surface, solutions stabilize, and patterns become clear. Some entries are cautionary. Some are victories. All are precise about what works, what doesn’t, and why.
The site is ongoing. It evolves as the infrastructure evolves. New ideas, new problems, new solutions get documented as they happen.