TechpadinTutorials 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. December 31, 2025·3 min read
TechpadinPersonal 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. December 29, 2025·4 min read
TechpadinPersonal 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. December 21, 2025·4 min read
TechpadinPersonal 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. December 20, 2025·4 min read
TechpadinPersonal 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. December 14, 2025·4 min read
TechpadinTutorials 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. December 13, 2025·4 min read
TechpadinPersonal 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. December 12, 2025·4 min read
TechpadinTutorials 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. December 6, 2025·4 min read
TechpadinTutorials 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. December 4, 2025·4 min read
TechpadinTutorials 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. November 26, 2025·4 min read
TechpadinTech News 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. November 24, 2025·4 min read
TechpadinTech News 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. November 18, 2025·4 min read
