Slipstreaming SSH into a PXE-booted Windows install
PXE booting a Windows 11 install is fine; getting a freshly installed VM to accept SSH from my homelab without me touching it is the actual interesting…
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Native iOS todos with an interactive widget
I ship enough native iOS to make my own todo app worth the effort. I already had a backend that powered the web UI; I wanted a SwiftUI app that hit the…
Read →KDP rejected my novel three times for comp titles in the description
I submitted a thriller to KDP in three editions on the same day: Kindle, paperback, hardcover. All three got rejected within a few hours, with identical…
Read →Cutting MX records to SES when your domain loops back to itself
I had cut over the MX records on several personal domains to AWS SES, because I wanted every incoming email going through a Lambda that writes to…
Read →A one-shot CLI so 'add it to my todo list' isn't a research project
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Read →Building a TPM-bypass Win11 ISO with offline hive injection
I wanted to PXE-boot a fully unattended Windows 11 25H2 install onto a VM with no TPM, no Secure Boot, and not enough RAM by Microsoft's reckoning. The…
Read →Workspace permission denied when SCP'ing from automation runner
I have a small homelab automation runner that orchestrates jobs across a handful of remote machines. New job, new bug: SCP transfers from the runner to a…
Read →A 200KB Windows tray app for passive activity check-ins
The macOS companion for a personal safety app I run does one small thing: every five minutes, if the user was active in the last minute, it POSTs a…
Read →Malware disguised as MKV files on public trackers
My TV import rate had collapsed from about 90 episodes a day to single digits over a five-day stretch. Sonarr's queue was full but nothing was making it…
Read →qBittorrent was on the wrong VPN port forward
The music torrent container had 349 torrents and zero of them were doing anything. Every single one was stuck in metaDL with 0 peers, 0 bytes. DHT showed…
Read →349 torrents and no queueing
The music torrent client had 349 torrents in flight. None of them were finishing. All of them were trying to download at the same time. This is what…
Read →When the Proxmox dashboard disagrees with reality
My homelab status dashboard pulls container/VM state from the Proxmox API. One day it showed three containers as stopped that I was actively connected…
Read →Cutting a full-book TTS render down to one CLI
I have a habit of writing things — long-form, novel-shaped things — and then not being able to listen to them on a walk. The commercial-quality audiobook…
Read →A dead WireGuard tunnel stalled every music torrent
Music container in my torrent setup was stuck. 349 torrents, all in metaDL, all at 0 peers, all 0 bytes. The container itself was running, qBittorrent's…
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