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.
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.
The Subscription Audit I Kept Avoiding
I finally audited every recurring charge on my card and found $187 a month in subscriptions, including one I forgot to cancel for almost three years.
The Cable Drawer Purge
A weekend spent purging a decade-plus of dead cables turns into a rant about how USB-C solved the connector-shape problem and quietly created a worse, invisible one.
Fifteen Years, One Old ThinkPad, and the Longest Day of the Year
On the summer solstice, an afternoon outside with an ancient ThinkPad turns into a read through fifteen years of this blog's archive and a reminder that battery-life complaints never really go away.
Ripping Out the Last Tracking Script
After years of putting it off, I finally ripped Google Analytics out of this blog and switched to a lightweight self-hosted alternative — and found out how much dead weight one old script had been carrying.
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.
The External Drive I Keep Almost Throwing Away
A cracked old external hard drive, four hundred photos from a 2014 Portugal trip, and a slow afternoon spent finally culling it down instead of just staring at the folder names again.
I Didn't Mean To Quit Google Search, But Here We Are
DuckDuckGo installs jumped 30% this week as people get sick of AI overviews burying real answers, and a broken espresso machine finally pushed me to switch too.
Cleaning Out The Cable Drawer
A Memorial Day weekend cleanout of a drawer full of dead cables and old gadgets, and some thoughts on why so much of personal tech ends up as sentimental clutter.
The Printer Will Outlive Us All
I spent three hours of my Saturday fixing my parents' printer and came away convinced that printer software is the one corner of the tech industry that time has completely forgotten.