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Engineering Blog & Dispatches

Technical writeups on sovereign homelab infrastructure, KiCad/EDA automation, and real-time audio/DSP systems.

2026-10-24 • 10 min read

Designing a Two-Tier Sovereign Cloud, Mail & Zero-JS Publishing Platform

How we built the Leander.Media sovereign platform: split-horizon WireGuard edge relays, GitLab CE 19.5, Stalwart Mail with DMARC-to-Grafana telemetry, Zitadel OIDC SSO, Stoat Chat, and an Obsidian-to-Zola pipeline shipping 0 KB of client-side JavaScript.

2026-10-24 • 11 min read

Stoat Chat on Leander.Media: Sovereign Real-Time Messaging, Voice & Getting Started Guide

How we deployed our self-hosted Stoat Chat platform at chat.leander.media with Zitadel OIDC Single Sign-On, low-latency Nordic LiveKit WebRTC voice/video, and pre-configured native apps for Windows, Linux, Android, and Web.