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…
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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…
Read →Producing an audiobook with Kokoro on a Mac mini
I wrote a thriller novel. I wanted an audiobook of it. The traditional path is ACX with a human narrator, six to twelve months and a few thousand…
Read →Using AppSync as a pub/sub fan-out without any data source
I had two clients — a web app and a native iOS app — both polling my backend every few seconds to learn that an assistant reply had finished. Polling…
Read →An OpenAI-compatible shim so Home Assistant could talk to my agent
I wanted
Read →Lidarr returns HTTP 500 on PUT /album/monitor mid-add
A note for anyone scripting Lidarr through its API: there's a race in the
Read →I got the push but the chat was empty
Recurring complaint from myself: the assistant pushes a notification that it's done, I open the app, the conversation is there, the assistant bubble is…
Read →Cold-start 500s from leftover Composer dev dependencies
A PHP function on Lambda started returning 500 on cold start after a routine deploy. Warm invocations were fine. The error in CloudWatch was specific and…
Read →Moving off OneDrive onto a Syncthing mesh
I had been sync'ing my ~/code folder through OneDrive for years. It worked until it didn't. The breaking point was Xcode and git both fighting OneDrive…
Read →The CT-is-running-but-the-app-is-dead 502 pattern
Recurring failure mode on the homelab: the assistant's domain returns 502 from every browser, but pct list says the LXC is running and systemctl status…
Read →A keyword router that lied about which mode it was in
My assistant has a cheap classifier that routes short, simple questions to a fast model without tools, and harder questions to a tool-capable model. The…
Read →Patching boot.wim with chntpw to no effect
I was building a custom Windows 11 install ISO and trying to do a clever registry tweak inside boot.wim to make in-place upgrade scenarios work the way I…
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