Levi Huff

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Building a supported Windows 11 PXE path in my Active Directory lab

How I used Hyper-V, WDS, custom WinPE, and an SMB-hosted Windows 11 source to reach a verified Phase 4 deployment boundary in my Active Directory and PXE lab.

August 22, 2026 6 min read
active-directory pxe wds winpe windows-11 hyper-v powershell systems-administration

Consolidating my Proxmox homelab into one Docker stack

Why I moved six self-hosted services out of separate LXC containers and into one Docker stack, and what that changed about operating, monitoring, and recovering my homelab.

August 20, 2026 7 min read
homelab proxmox docker lxc self-hosting systems-administration

Making my AI workflow keep its receipts

How I turn temporary AI sessions into tested changes, reusable lessons, and auditable handoffs without letting cached context outrank the live system.

August 18, 2026 9 min read
ai codex workflow testing obsidian automation

Teaching my portfolio to answer for itself

How I rebuilt levihuff.net around one canonical identity, visible quick answers, linked JSON-LD, and a generated llms.txt without pretending any of it guarantees AI rankings.

August 17, 2026 10 min read
ai geo aeo eleventy json-ld llms-txt seo

Helping a family friend make her Android phone quieter and safer

A community tech-support visit that turned scam texts, browser pop-ups, and an overloaded inbox into a cleaner Android setup with protections she can understand and maintain.

August 10, 2026 7 min read
community it-support android cybersecurity digital-literacy

Owning my AI memory

Why the context you build up with one AI assistant doesn't move cleanly to the next, and how a local, version-controlled markdown profile keeps you out of any single platform's proprietary memory feature.

June 23, 2026 10 min read
ai claude-code gemini llm workflow obsidian

Indexing my Reddit saves without the API

A build log of reddit-kb, the MCP server that turns my saved Reddit posts into a local searchable index. The official API was a dead end, so it runs on a session cookie, nomic-embed-text through Ollama, and ChromaDB. Two Docker failures included.

June 16, 2026 10 min read
ai mcp reddit chromadb ollama embeddings rag docker

Spending the Fable window

A retrospective on using Claude Fable 5 only for first-pass work during its short free window: the tier ladder it sat on, what I built with it, real ccusage numbers against an Opus baseline, and what instrumentation caught that memory would have gotten wrong.

June 13, 2026 15 min read
ai claude-code fable opus sonnet mcp ccusage eleventy

Rebuilding my dev setup with three LLMs

A build log of moving to a Mac, rebuilding the terminal stack, and putting Claude Code, Codex, and Gemini to work on the same codebase. Two real failures included.

April 29, 2026 8 min read
ai claude-code codex gemini macos terminal devops eleventy

Deploying OpenClaw on Windows with WSL2

A ground-level look at what it actually takes to get OpenClaw running locally on Windows: the wizard crashes, config schema traps, broken UI elements and a hard lesson about running LLMs on a display GPU

April 14, 2026 6 min read
ai local-llm wsl2 windows ollama homelab devops

AeroAssist - Adding Docker support for homelab deployment

Containerizing the AeroAssist ticketing system with Docker and Docker Compose for simplified deployment in homelabs and production environments

January 26, 2026 5 min read
docker containerization devops csharp asp.net homelab

IT support at Tire Discounters

How I provided IT support across Cincinnati and Sharonville, cleared a backlogged ticket queue, improved employee onboarding documentation, and built a new MDT image with automated Lenovo driver installation and domain enrollment

March 15, 2025 6 min read
it-support mdt windows-deployment field-support systems-administration process-improvement

Culinary Mastery - Building an educational cooking platform

A senior design project creating an accessible educational app for teaching foundational cooking skills through video tutorials and interactive learning

January 20, 2025 8 min read
full-stack education web-development senior-design react-native azure

How this site works - Building with Eleventy and Node.js

A technical overview of how levihuff.net is built using Eleventy (11ty) static site generator, Node.js, and automated deployment via GitHub Actions

January 19, 2025 5 min read
eleventy nodejs static-site web-development github-actions

AeroAssist - Full-stack ticketing system development

Building a comprehensive ticketing system using C#, ASP.NET, and MSSQL to streamline ticket creation, tracking, and management workflows

January 18, 2025 5 min read
full-stack csharp asp.net mssql web-development ticketing-system

LocoQuest - Android geolocation scavenger hunt application

Building a mobile application using Kotlin and Android SDK that uses geolocation to guide users to real-world benchmarks in an interactive scavenger hunt

January 17, 2025 6 min read
mobile-development android kotlin geolocation app-development

Systems administration learning path for IT students

Practical exposure to Linux, Windows, and macOS system administration through troubleshooting, configuration, and reliability work

December 20, 2024 2 min read
systems-administration linux windows education

Machine lifecycle and PXE imaging at Total Quality Logistics

How I managed machine decommissioning by processor generation, coordinated hardware moves under tight deadlines, and deployed department-specific images via PXE boot at TQL

August 10, 2024 6 min read
systems-administration imaging pxe-boot it-operations

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