diff --git a/home-kubernetes/README.md b/home-kubernetes/README.md
deleted file mode 100644
index d6b8c2f..0000000
--- a/home-kubernetes/README.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,18 +0,0 @@
-
-
-## Home Kubernetes With K3S
-
-<https://k3s.io/>
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-## Other Kubernetes Distros
-
-I have tried k0s a few times and consistently got an "agent not available on node" error that stopped me from reading logs from pods.
-
-I have used kubeadm to deploy clusters, while it works, it it pretty manual.
-
diff --git a/kubernetes/gitea/web.yml b/kubernetes/gitea/web.yml
index 121f20f..7801e95 100644
--- a/kubernetes/gitea/web.yml
+++ b/kubernetes/gitea/web.yml
@@ -61,6 +61,8 @@ kind: Service
 metadata:
   name: gitea-web-svc
   namespace: projects
+  annotations:
+    tailscale.com/expose: "true" # exposes IP directly
 spec:
   type: NodePort
   ports:
@@ -79,7 +81,7 @@ metadata:
   name: gitea
   namespace: projects
   annotations:
-    cert-manager.io/cluster-issuer: cloudflare-issuer
+    cert-manager.io/cluster-issuer: cloudflare-issuer # not really working with tailscale
 spec:
   ingressClassName: tailscale
   tls:
diff --git a/kubernetes/readme.md b/kubernetes/readme.md
index 54595cd..4e3fb96 100644
--- a/kubernetes/readme.md
+++ b/kubernetes/readme.md
@@ -1,5 +1,9 @@
 # sources
 
+> note: k0s never works as well as you think
+
+<https://k3s.io/>
+
 
 nix instructions: <https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/pkgs/applications/networking/cluster/k3s/README.md>
 
@@ -21,3 +25,8 @@ helm upgrade \
   --wait
 ```
 
+
+Currently clouflare domains cannot be CNAME'd to tailscale domains:
+- <https://github.com/tailscale/tailscale/issues/7650>
+- related, different IP addresses: <https://tailscale.com/blog/choose-your-ip#natural-solutions>
+
diff --git a/nix/home-manager/alex.home.nix b/nix/home-manager/alex.home.nix
index 3964c36..ae4d701 100644
--- a/nix/home-manager/alex.home.nix
+++ b/nix/home-manager/alex.home.nix
@@ -18,6 +18,10 @@
     htop
     iputils
     dotnetCorePackages.dotnet_9.sdk
+    python312
+    gcc
+    gnumake
+    dig
   ];
   home.sessionVariables = {
     EDITOR = "vim";
@@ -26,7 +30,7 @@
     enable = true;
     shellInit = ''
 function commit
-  git add --all
+  git add --allr
   git commit -m "$argv"
   git push
 end