TechpadinPersonal 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. February 24, 2026·3 min read
TechpadinTutorials 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. February 23, 2026·4 min read
TechpadinPersonal 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. February 16, 2026·4 min read
TechpadinTutorials 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. February 8, 2026·4 min read
TechpadinPersonal Fourteen Years of Unfinished Drafts A late-night cleanup of fourteen years of unpublished blog drafts turns into an accidental trip through old opinions, dead apps, and one very annoyed rant about Evernote. February 6, 2026·4 min read
TechpadinTutorials 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. January 27, 2026·4 min read
TechpadinPersonal 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. January 26, 2026·4 min read
TechpadinPersonal 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. January 20, 2026·4 min read
TechpadinPersonal 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. January 19, 2026·4 min read
TechpadinPersonal 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. January 11, 2026·4 min read
TechpadinTutorials 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. January 9, 2026·4 min read
TechpadinTutorials 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. January 3, 2026·3 min read
