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.
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.