Plex, Plex Pass, and the Slow Creep of Enshittification
I’ve been a Plex user since 2012. Back then, I paid around £50 for a lifetime Plex Pass. It felt like a bargain. Plex was a genuinely useful piece of…
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From Tailscale to WireGuard: Why I Built a Private VPN with Two VPSes
In my ongoing quest for digital sovereignty, I recently replaced Tailscale with a plain WireGuard setup that I control myself. No third-party control plane, no extra SaaS layer, no mystery…
My 3-2-1 Backup Strategy: Why I Swapped MEGA S4 for Scaleway S3
A 3-2-1 backup rule is the industry standard for data survival, dictated by the logic that any single point of failure is a guaranteed disaster waiting to happen. It requires…
The End of an Eighteen Year Honeymoon
Mitchell Hashimoto is moving Ghostty off GitHub. For a developer who has been on the platform since 2008 declaring it no longer a place for serious work is a massive…
Proxmox RAM Mismatch: Joining Dots with the QEMU Guest Agent
If you’ve ever stared at your Proxmox summary and wondered why it claims your VM is eating 98% of its RAM while your internal dashboard says it’s only at 40%,…
Setting Up My Son’s First Blog: A Self-Hosting Journey
As someone who runs a WordPress site myself, I naturally thought setting one up for my nine-year-old son would be a breeze. After all, I know the ins and outs…
From Betamax to Bare Metal: The Origin of The Unknown Universe
I’ve lived through a unique technological schism: the tactile, analogue 80s and the explosive, digital 90s. This wasn’t just a change in gadgets; it was a total shift in how…