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.
Tutorials
Tutorials
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Getting a Local Coding Assistant Working for the Train
A practical writeup on setting up a local AI coding assistant with Ollama and Continue for VS Code, why it beats dead train wifi, and where it still falls short of cloud models.
Finally Automating My Backups With Restic and B2
How I finally set up automated, encrypted, off-site backups for my home server using restic and Backblaze B2, after a scary drive noise pushed me to stop procrastinating.