My homelab has gradually evolved into infrastructure I rely on every day. VPN access, dashboards, containers, AI workloads, monitoring, and remote services all quietly sit behind the scenes, powering my life. Unfortunately, when the Internet drops, the entire ecosystem feels broken. To add some redundancy, I just installed the UniFi…
2025 was an interesting year for me as an academician. I’m still balancing clinical time as an attending cardiac anesthesiologist and cardiovascular ICU intensivist; however, I’ve also been humbled to receive leadership opportunities as the medical director of our organ donor care center (DCC) and will be serving on the…
Every few years, I tweak RK.MD’s design to refresh my content and to leverage the latest technologies at that time. My goals for 2026 are to address a few lingering headaches built up over the years: The goal was simple: make this as lean, consistent, and content-centered as possible by…
Over the last month, I’ve been slowly refining a workflow that lets me run a private large language model (LLM) on my NVIDIA DGX Spark. I wanted an inference model that lives entirely on my own hardware, never leaves my network, and feels responsive enough for writing, coding, and day-to-day…
Rather than using a separate plugin or paid service, I used macOS’s Automator application to create a folder action that converts popular image and video file types to AVIF and WebM, respectively. This way, regardless of the media format, I can drop it into a predetermined folder on my Mac…
2024 has been a whirlwind of milestones and growth, both professionally and personally. This year, I was inducted into the Academy of Master Educators and became the medical director of our organ donor specialty care unit (DSCU). As an associate medical director, I’ve also been heavily involved in our Master…
This is a walkthrough for how I use a personal domain name hosted at Cloudflare to direct traffic via Tailscale to a sidecar NGINX Proxy Manager (NPM) Docker container on my Synology NAS which, in turn, I use to obtain SSL certificates and reverse proxy requests to various Docker containers.…
2023 was honestly just a weird year. The stock market was all over the place. Interest rates skyrocketed. International conflict became more and more disconcerting. The only thing that seemed stable was my clinical work. I was humbled also to be selected as one of the associate medical directors of…
I upgraded my Eero Pro 6E router to the Eero Max 7 Wi-Fi 7 router yesterday to take advantage of the 10 GbE connectivity of my network-attached storage (NAS) and Mac Studio – the machines I use the most. Although I own no Wi-Fi-7-capable devices and live in a 1,000-square-foot…
WebP is an image format developed by Google in 2010 with the aim of providing a better compression algorithm for web images, resulting in smaller file sizes and faster page load times. The format uses both lossy and lossless compression techniques to achieve this. Compared to other popular image formats…