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TL;DR # My technical blog was squeezing code blocks, tables, and ASCII diagrams into a 650px column designed for novel paragraphs. One CSS line fixed it. The real lesson: defaults optimized for one use case silently degrade another. The Problem I Didn’t See # I’d been publishing posts for months. Tutorials with wide code blocks. Architecture posts with ASCII flow diagrams. Tables comparing tools and alternatives. Every single one was being crushed into 65ch — roughly 650 pixels of width.

The Beginning # Every homelab starts somewhere. Mine started with a Raspberry Pi running Pi-hole because I was tired of ads on my smart TV. That was three years ago. Today, I’m running a 4-node Proxmox cluster with 50+ containers, enterprise-grade networking, centralized logging, and more automation than I probably need. Somewhere along the way, I realized I should write this down.