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…
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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…
Read →When the upstream CDN just isn't reachable from your house
I needed to download Windows 11 25H2 ISO bits via the UUP build flow. Aria2c started fine, pulled the small metadata files (a few hundred KB total), and…
Read →Bref 2 to 3 and provided.al2 to al2023, the gotchas
AWS sent the usual EOL notice for the provided.al2 Lambda runtime. I had 13 functions on Bref 2 / al2 spread across two serverless projects. The…
Read →Reverse engineering a Bluetooth-only irrigation controller
I have an Orbit B-hyve XD irrigation controller. It's Bluetooth-only — no Wi-Fi hub built in. Every existing integration (Home Assistant, pybhyve…
Read →USB 2.0 Billboard means the cable is charge-only
Plugged an ESP32-class dev board into the Mac. Instead of a serial port, macOS showed it as a USB 2.0 BILLBOARD device from VLI Inc., vendor ID 0x2109…
Read →qBittorrent's API rate-limits fresh logins
A dashboard tile of mine that aggregates torrent counts across five qBittorrent instances started intermittently returning 403s. The page would refresh…
Read →An on-this-day journal feature from 3,000 Day One entries
I exported 3,060 Day One journal entries as JSON, imported them into DynamoDB, and built an
Read →Two flags for one boolean, drifted apart
A user of a side-project reported that the
Read →Disabling Zebra printer Bidi when PowerShell refuses to help
I write deployment scripts for Zebra ZQ521 mobile printers running CPCL. Two of the standard config knobs — disable bidirectional communication and…
Read →A counter clock as the simplest thing that could possibly work
I needed a public webpage that counts time since a fixed instant. Two days, four hours, big number, mobile-friendly. The interesting part wasn't the page…
Read →Disabled the schedule. Got paged anyway.
I disabled a stuck check-in schedule at 09:05. At 09:33 my phone buzzed with
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