Blog — brace

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field notes

notes from building brace — design, post-mortems, releases.

2026-04-09 I manage three home networks and a dozen self-hosted services. Here's why I'm building my own infrastructure orchestrator. The story of how managing WireGuard peers, DNS records, TLS certificates, and firewall rules across three households pushed me to build Brace — a modular infrastructure orchestrator for self-hosters.