TechpadinTutorials Git Worktrees Saved My Sanity With Multiple Agents How using git worktrees instead of a single shared directory stopped my parallel coding agents from quietly wrecking each other's work. July 15, 2026·4 min read
TechpadinTutorials My Downloads Folder Finally Sorts Itself (Sort Of) A small local model plus a five-line cron job finally tamed my Downloads folder, after two failed attempts with fancier tools. July 9, 2026·4 min read
TechpadinTutorials Running Two AI Agents Without Them Fighting Over Files A practical writeup on using git worktrees to run two AI coding agent sessions against the same repo without them clobbering each other's files. July 3, 2026·4 min read
TechpadinTutorials Transcribing Two Years of Voice Memos With whisper.cpp I finally transcribed two years of accumulated voice memos using whisper.cpp running locally on a Mac Mini, and learned more about my own rambling than I expected. June 13, 2026·4 min read
TechpadinTutorials Getting FreshRSS Running on the Old NUC I finally moved my RSS subscriptions off Feedly and onto a self-hosted FreshRSS instance running on an old NUC, and it took about forty minutes I'd been dreading for months. June 7, 2026·4 min read
TechpadinTutorials Getting a Local Model Running on My Ancient Desktop I finally got a small local AI model running on my old desktop instead of assuming it was too weak, and it took less than two hours once I stopped procrastinating. May 16, 2026·4 min read
TechpadinTutorials Finally Self-Hosting My RSS Reader After years of half-hearted attempts, I finally self-hosted FreshRSS on my Synology, ditched Inoreader, and discovered a third of my old feeds were dead anyway. May 2, 2026·4 min read
TechpadinTutorials Finally Ditching Google Photos for Immich How I finally migrated 41,000 family photos off Google Photos onto a self-hosted Immich server, including the metadata mistake that cost me a full re-import. April 30, 2026·4 min read
TechpadinTutorials Deploying With Nothing But Git Push (Finally) A weekend spent rebuilding my side project's deploy setup around plain git push, why the bare-repo trick still works, and where it fell apart. April 24, 2026·4 min read
TechpadinTutorials Finally Automated the Backups (Only Took Fourteen Years) After a near-miss deleting my only backup folder by hand, I finally set up real automated backups for this blog — restic, nightly cron, and a weekly restore test. April 14, 2026·4 min read
TechpadinTutorials The Status Page I Built Instead of Paying For One I got tired of paying for uptime monitoring SaaS, so I built a stupidly simple one myself with a cron job, curl, and one plain HTML file. April 6, 2026·4 min read
TechpadinTutorials Quitting the Doomscroll: FreshRSS Instead of Twitter How I set up FreshRSS on a home server to replace my Twitter doomscrolling habit, with the docker-compose config and the one trick that actually made it stick. March 27, 2026·4 min read
