The Annual Tab Purge
A year-end ritual of closing 200-odd browser tabs turns into an accidental audit of what actually mattered in 2025, and a look back at 14 years of this blog's Decembers.
Fourteen Years of Dead Links
A weekend spent running a link checker against 640 old techpad posts turned up roughly 800 dead links, and a lot of thoughts about how fast the web rots now compared to a decade ago.
Cable Drawer Archaeology
A Saturday spent cleaning out a desk drawer full of dead cables turns into a small meditation on tech hoarding, USB-C, and this blog's fourteenth year.
Up Past Midnight For The Game Awards
A late-night recap of staying up for The Game Awards 2025, the show's bloated runtime, lingering Half-Life 3 hype, and a bowl of cereal eaten at midnight.
Migrating My Photo Library to Immich (Finally)
I finally moved my photo library off Google Photos onto a self-hosted Immich instance running on an old Dell under my desk. Here's how the migration actually went, panicked moment included.
Finally Replaced the Router
After years of blaming my internet plan, I finally swapped out the ancient rental router for a mesh setup and realized how much low-grade annoyance I'd just been living with.
The Boring December Server Cleanup I Do Every Year
My annual December ritual of checking domains, testing backups for real, and killing off forgotten VPS instances before the year ends.
Blocking the Bots Without Blocking Google
My nginx logs were full of GPTBot and ClaudeBot hammering old gallery posts, so I finally set up proper server-side blocking and rate limiting instead of trusting robots.txt.
Prepping the AoC Rig Again
Getting my Advent of Code setup sorted before December hits: a Python env with uv, a boring folder template, and a session-cookie mistake I'm not repeating.
Downdetector Was Down Too
A week after Cloudflare took a chunk of the internet down with it, some late thoughts on why the funniest detail was Downdetector going down too.
The Morning Cloudflare Broke My Internet
A Cloudflare outage knocked out half my usual tabs this morning, from X to ChatGPT to Spotify, and even Downdetector went down trying to report it.
The New ChatGPT Personality Dial Is Basically an Apology
OpenAI shipped GPT-5.1 this week with knobs for warmth and personality, which reads less like a new feature and more like a quiet admission about GPT-5's tone problem.