At some point, every home server operator loses steam. After 6+ years running ~20 applications on a home server, I wish only for things to work properly and not waste my time. If you’re anything like me, docker compose is probably all you need. Here is my full configuration My needs Any conversation about the...

Podcasts are nice. They show up in chronological order, download in the background, and work the same in every app. In a world of algorithmic walled garden social “platforms”, this is a small miracle. Why can’t more of the internet be like that? As Yair Rosenberg wrote in 2023, you can take back control of what you...

Photos from RandyLand, Bicycle Heaven, and around town in Pittsburgh, PA. October 2025.

In June of ‘25 I shut off most of my social media accounts: Facebook, Instagram, and LinkedIn. I kept reddit under the happy delusion that I could learn to use it responsibly (lol) but I’ve made strides to curtail that as well. Since then, I’ve often thought about what the experience of being “on the internet” is...

There are plenty of high-quality full length concerts available on youtube. It only recenlty occurred to me that I could just turn these into my own bootleg live albums. Step 1: Manifest file Make a new text file that follows this template. artist: CHVRCHES album: Live at Glastonbury 2016 date: 2016 source:...