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.
The Domains I Forgot I Owned
A Sunday-night cleanup of twenty-two hoarded domains turns into a small confession about buying domains instead of finishing projects.
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.
Sixteen Chargers and Not One I Need
A long-overdue cleanout of the kitchen junk drawer turns into an inventory of sixteen old charging cables and one very dead Fitbit charger.
Ditching iCloud Sync for Obsidian and Syncthing
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.
My House Still Doesn't Know What Time It Is
Three days after the clocks sprang forward, a room-by-room audit of every device in the house that still hasn't figured out what time it is.
The Backup Drive That Finally Made a Clicking Noise
A weekend spent consolidating years of chaotic backup drives into a proper NAS setup, and what I found buried in a folder called STUFF2019.
The Cable Drawer Finally Died
A Sunday spent counting and purging fourteen years of accumulated charging cables, and a grudging admission that the USB-C mandate actually delivered on its promise.