Moving a homelab onto one small box
Three machines became one quiet mini PC. What I kept, what I dropped, and why fewer moving parts beat more horsepower.
A boring backup plan that actually runs
Nightly snapshots, one offsite copy, and a restore test on the first of every month. The test is the part that matters.
Notes on sourdough hydration
I spent a month baking the same loaf at five hydration levels. The short version: 72% is where it stopped fighting me.
What I learned from writing my own static site generator
Mostly that I should not have. Still, two hundred lines of code taught me more about templates than any framework did.
Why I still keep a paper notebook
Search is great for finding things. Paper is better for thinking about them.