Hello, I'm Alex Lebens

Cloud Engineer by day, Homelab enthusiast by night. Exploring Minnesota both indoors and outdoors in between.

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Full stack and cloud engineer.

Tinkering, testing, deploying, etc, etc ...

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Talos Upgrades

Feb 26, 2026

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Excession

Feb 26, 2026

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On the Trail of Genghis Khan

Jan 31, 2026

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