Fixing My Embarrassing Backup Situation
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.
Forty-One Abandoned Drafts
Going through fourteen years of abandoned blog drafts, including a confidently wrong 2014 rant about RSS readers dying and a comments-section flip-flop I've repeated for years.
Switching My Homelab From Cloudflare Tunnel to Tailscale Funnel
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.
Fourteen Years of Unfinished Drafts
A late-night cleanup of fourteen years of unpublished blog drafts turns into an accidental trip through old opinions, dead apps, and one very annoyed rant about Evernote.
Fixing My RSS Reader Problem for the Third Time in a Decade
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.
Resurrecting an X220 as a Writing Machine
I dug an old ThinkPad X220 out of a closet and turned it into a distraction-free writing machine, and the keyboard converted me into a believer.
The Drawer of Dead Gadgets
A January ritual of finally cleaning out the desk drawer full of dead gadgets, an eleven-year-old iPhone that still boots, and a mini rant about where to actually recycle the stuff.
The Great Tab Cull of January 2026
A late-night browser tab purge turns into an accidental audit of a year's worth of unfinished business, half-read articles, and one free piano I'll never pick up.
The Drawer of Dead Cables
A weekend cable-drawer purge turns up a 2012 backup stick of old techpad drafts, plus a complaint about how inconvenient e-waste recycling still is in 2026.
Finally Making 14 Years of Posts Searchable
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.
My Annual January Server Cleanup (And Why I Still Dread 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.
Backing Up My Dotfiles Before Midnight
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.