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.
Auditing Fourteen Years of Dead Links
I spent a Saturday clicking every outbound link in my oldest posts and found out how much of the early-2010s internet has just quietly vanished.
Cleaning Out My RSS Feeds
I spent a few hours pruning my bloated RSS feed list and it turned into an accidental meditation on which blogs last and which ones quietly die.
The Shoebox Backup Strategy
Fifteen years into this blog and my entire backup strategy is still a shoebox of dying hard drives under my desk. A dispatch from three hours I will not get back.
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.
The Subscription Audit I'd Been Avoiding Since January
I finally audited every subscription hitting my card and found $71 a month of stuff I forgot I was paying for, including a QR code generator app.
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.
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.