About this site

RoboDodd is a personal tech blog by Tim Dodd — notes from a software engineer who spends too much free time on home labs, Kubernetes clusters, 3D prints, and whatever AI tool is current that week.

It started in December 2022 as a place to park the how-tos I kept writing for myself. Everything here is free to read, with no signups, newsletters, or paywalls.

What you’ll find here

• Kubernetes and home-lab setup guides (k3s, longhorn, Cloudflare Tunnels).
• App development notes, mostly around Angular and .NET.
• Local AI experiments — Ollama, DeepSeek, Stable Diffusion, running things on hardware I already own.
• Occasional 3D printing projects when a problem at home is solvable with a printer.

How the site works

The blog originally ran on Ghost. In April 2026 I migrated it to a static site — content lives as JSON and Markdown in a Git repo, a small Node builder renders the HTML, and a GitHub Action deploys it. The write-up is in Building a Static Blog to Replace Ghost.

If you want to follow along, the RSS feed is the easiest way. Otherwise, LinkedIn, GitHub, and X are linked in the nav.

Thanks for reading.