Fighting My Own NAS All Weekend
A Labor Day weekend spent migrating a seven-year-old home server setup to a new mini PC turned into a two-day slog through undocumented cron jobs, GPU drivers, and one very good raccoon.
Personal
Personal
Fifteen Years of This, Almost
Techpad turns fifteen in November, and Im using an otherwise slow Sunday to think about why Ive kept typing into this thing since 2011.
Renewing the Domain Again
A yearly domain renewal notice turns into some rambling about why a fifteen-year-old personal blog is still worth keeping alive in 2026.
A Hosting Platform I Keep Coming Back To Just Redid Its Whole Site
Tricknowtech quietly rebuilt its site this June and moved to a shorter domain, tricknow.tech. Here's why I keep using it for side projects.
Cleaning Out the Archive Folder
A weekend spent digging through fifteen years of old drafts and dead links turns into a longer meditation on how much has quietly changed since this blog started.
The Drawer Where Old Phones Go to Die
I finally emptied the drawer of dead phones and tangled cables I've been avoiding since 2019, and thought about why I couldn't bring myself to recycle any of it.
Cable Bin Archaeology
A weekend spent cleaning out a decade-old bin of mystery cables turns into a mini audit of old hard drives, an embarrassing 2012 blog draft, and a home network held together with static IP guesswork.
The Drafts Folder Has 341 Posts I Never Finished
A late-night scroll through fifteen years of unfinished blog drafts, a hosting migration scare, and why 341 abandoned posts dont bother me as much as I thought they would.
The Bridge Board Always Dies First
A dead external hard drive sends me down a rabbit hole of old blog drafts, bad 2013 predictions, and a long-overdue reckoning with my actual backup habits.
The Drawer Full of Dead Hard Drives
A messy drawer of old external drives forces a reckoning with fifteen years of digital hoarding, and a decision to stop trusting my own backup habits.
The Hard Drive in the Closet
Found a forgotten external hard drive from 2012-2015 in a closet during a heat wave and spent an afternoon down a nostalgia hole instead of fixing my actual backup situation.
The Cable Drawer Audit
A long-overdue purge of the cable drawer turns into a small rant about why cable organizers never actually fix anything.