I moved my Obsidian vault off iCloud sync and onto Syncthing instead, running between my own devices with no cloud company in the middle. Setup notes, a router mess I had to untangle, and why I'd still hesitate to recommend it to everyone.
After years of half-assed manual backups, I finally set up automated, encrypted, off-site backups for this blog using restic and a cron job. Here's exactly how.
Swapping Cloudflare Tunnel for Tailscale Funnel on my homelab after one too many dashboard-induced 11pm outages, with the actual commands and the gotchas nobody mentions.
After years of bouncing between dead RSS services and half-abandoned apps, I finally self-hosted Miniflux on a $6 VPS. Here's the setup, the gotchas, and why it stuck this time.
I spent a slow week after the holidays bolting real full-text search onto this blog's 14-year archive using Pagefind, and it took about an hour once I stopped overthinking it.
A walkthrough of the janky little server-cleanup ritual I do every January, from pruning Docker cruft to finally reading my own cron jobs.
A New Year's Eve ritual: finally fixing my dotfiles backup with a bare git repo instead of the Dropbox folder chaos I'd been living with for a decade.
I finally moved my photo library off Google Photos onto a self-hosted Immich instance running on an old Dell under my desk. Here's how the migration actually went, panicked moment included.
My annual December ritual of checking domains, testing backups for real, and killing off forgotten VPS instances before the year ends.
My nginx logs were full of GPTBot and ClaudeBot hammering old gallery posts, so I finally set up proper server-side blocking and rate limiting instead of trusting robots.txt.
Getting my Advent of Code setup sorted before December hits: a Python env with uv, a boring folder template, and a session-cookie mistake I'm not repeating.
A personal, low-effort fix for the thing that annoyed me most about the October 20 AWS outage: my own tiny status page went down right along with everything it was supposed to be watching.
