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+title: "Project Log: Docker Dreams and YAML Nightmares"
+date: 2025-11-05
+description: "A totally serious update on my local lab, featuring unexpected container drama, a misbehaving reverse proxy, and lessons in patience."
+tags: ["homelab", "docker", "networking", "humor"]
+categories: ["DevOps"]
+draft: false
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+> Sometimes the difference between a 'production-ready stack' and 'why is my NAS on fire?' is one missing space in a YAML file.
+
+It started innocently enough:  
+a single `docker-compose.yml`, neat and tidy, humming along like a well-trained orchestra. Then I added *one* new service—my self-hosted note app—and everything fell apart.
+
+### The Symptoms
+- Containers refusing to start with no useful logs  
+- DNS loops that made my router question its purpose  
+- My wife asking, “Why is our TV buffering when you touch the server?”
+
+### The Diagnosis
+Turns out, I nested a volume mount under the wrong key.  
+YAML: 1 — Human: 0.
+
+### The Fix
+A humble indent.  
+Four spaces, to be precise.  
+Suddenly the world made sense again, DNS was stable, and my cat stopped judging me.
+
+### Lessons Learned
+1. **Version control everything**, even your test Compose files.  
+2. **Automate backups** before you “just try something real quick.”  
+3. **Celebrate small victories**—sometimes the win is just getting your network back online before dinner.
+
+---
+
+If you read this and thought, “I’ve been there,” then welcome to the club.  
+Homelabs teach patience, humility, and the thrill of a perfectly clean `docker ps` output.
+
+*Stay tuned for next week’s adventure: rebuilding my reverse proxy after a 301 loop ate my weekend.*