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.
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A late-night cleanup of fourteen years of unpublished blog drafts turns into an accidental trip through old opinions, dead apps, and one very annoyed rant about Evernote.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.