This is the companion to I own my books, where I made the case for stripping DRM and actually owning what I buy. This post is the machinery overview: how I store, serve, and read all of it from my own homelab. My books workflow # When I find a book I want to buy, I go to eBooks.com and search for it. They have most...

I love reading. I caught the bug as a middle-schooler when I got caught skipping school, and as punishment, I had to read The Chronicles of Amber and do a book report about it. Even today, opening a book and fanning the pages to get the paper smell activates very fond memories and emotions. I remember a time before...

Hi hello. Happy #Caturday! I would like to introduce you to our little weirdo, Lennie. Look at this little dummy! What a sweetie.Richmond, VA Lennie is the newest member of The Goblin Hoard. He was born 06/28/2025 and his gotcha date was 10/04/2025. We don't exactly know his breed, but he looks like a lynx point...

Rachelle and I bought our house in Richmond in late 2022 and moved in early 2023. The ULTRALOQ U-Bolt Pro Z-Wave Smart Lock was the very first smart device I installed after setting up Home Assistant. Requirements # Our must-have requirements were the lock must work with Home Assistant, and it must have a...

Man, I've been circling on this idea for some weeks now and couldn't quite figure out the best way to open, but I think this is a great one: About a month ago, Flathub announced a ban on slopcoded applications. Evangelos “GeopJr” Paterakis, developer of a number of popular Linux applications and ton of other things,...

This is part 2 of my little webmentions series. In part 1, I outlined my incoming webmentions setup. This one will be much shorter because outgoing is a much more straightforward process. As with incoming, I prefer to avoid dependencies on any external, third-party services to send my webmentions. I either want to...

!journal: As I'm typing these words, it's 6:07am on a Sunday morning. I know it's humid out because the humidity is causing the finger print sensors on the door locks to beep. The cat feeders have just hit and the cats are milling about. I can hyperfocus on things. I've mostly thought of this as a feature and not a...

I'm unsure if everyone is really talking about webmentions or if I'm just noticing them more because I'm working on mine, but it certainly feels like the former.[1] A few weeks ago, I mentioned that my site now supports webmentions. Since then, I've continued to iterate on my implementation, and I think I've finally...

Welp, I'm doing it. I'm canceling my Pinboard subscription. I've actually been a Pinboard customer for a very long time. I found Pinboard way back in 2010 when Yahoo said they were sunsetting Delicious. It's my second longest used service with first going to Last.fm. My first scrobble was all the way back in 2005: 🎸...

I've been scrolling the Bubbles new feed for a few weeks now. I think of it like trolling[1] for good feeds. This is a pretty high-volume feed so I can't click through every post so I end up just reading the title and trying to decide if it's something I'd be interested in reading. As a person on the internet, I...

Good morning y'all. I saw that the Knicks won the NBA Championship. Rachelle and I actually watched part of games 3 and 4 mostly because Rachelle likes Mamdani. It's the first time I've really watched NBA basketball since Michael Jordan retired from the Bulls. Since I'm now an expert on the modern NBA game after...

Hi hello. Happy #Caturday! I would like to introduce you to our sweet boy, Linus. Linus in his natural environment. If it fits, it sits.Richmond, VA · April 2026 We brought Linus home from the local Richmond SPCA at the end of November, 2024. At the SPCA, he had a lot of personality and was reaching through the...