Importing yourdomain.tld into Terraform, standing up two new domains, and wiring dedicated Cloudflare tunnels to k8s containers. All of it code, none of it clicked.

Plex was CPU transcoding instead of using the GPU. The fix was one line in daemon.json.

About swapping two hard drives to upgrade capacity and cycle out old disks

Giving Pi-hole a real IP on the network with MetalLB, creating a dedicated VLAN for ad-blocked WiFi, and pointing a Ruckus SSID at it.

Scope creep, unclear requirements, bad information, and repeated work.

How this blog gets built and deployed.

Public and private game servers hosted from The Heezy.

Putting Debian and XFCE on a 2012 Mac Mini and handing it to an 8-year-old for Minecraft.

Minecraft Java Edition modding, dependency hell, Prism Launcher, and why Bedrock is ass-wipe mode.

How vendor sales reps and refresh cycles put perfectly good enterprise hardware into the hands of anyone paying attention.