My monitoring cried wolf until I stopped listening, so I fixed the wolf
Keyword checks, heartbeats, retries, and the flaky Wi-Fi camera that had to stop paging me.
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The Raspberry Pi that booted perfectly and refused to tell anyone
An SD card autopsy, a clock six hours slow, and a Wi-Fi profile that was exactly zero bytes long.
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The one-click privacy fix that would have quietly killed my VPN
CDN proxies speak HTTP. WireGuard speaks UDP. Guess what happens when you proxy the VPN's hostname.
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No more IP addresses and certificate warnings on the home network
A wildcard certificate via DNS-01, a second reverse proxy on its own address, and split DNS that only answers at home.
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Feeding a few hundred PDFs to Paperless without losing my mind
A tab-separated list, the Paperless REST API, a Bash quirk that shuffled columns, and a 'latest' tag that broke Office files.
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Smuggling Google Drive home, one nightly rclone run at a time
Google Docs have no file size, WebDAV hates that, and a CDN's 100 MB limit was waiting at the end.
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Ten apps, ten passwords, zero patience: putting SSO in front of the homelab
OpenID Connect where apps support it, forward auth where they don't, and the one claim that blocked every login.
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Your GPU wants out of the host, and the VM is ready to adopt it
IOMMU groups, vfio-pci, and the ROM file nobody mentions until your screen stays black.
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