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…
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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 →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 →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 →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 →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 →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 →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 →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 →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…
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