I stopped being able to sleep

It's been nearly 6 days since my body has decided it no longer wants to sleep. Let me preface this by saying that before this incident, sleeping was like my superpower. I could fall asleep anywhere, anytime, no loss in sleep quality. As strange as it sounds, my ability to…

The whirlwind of personal projects

Four months went by too fast. I got so caught up in being productive that there was literally no time to idle around and blog. Things that have happened since the last post, mostly starting in June: Steam announced EOL for Windows 7. That means I needed to upgrade my…

Pihole through AT&T fiber's shitty router

I'm visiting my parents and I left a spare Zimaboard so I could set up a Pihole network and maybe some other interesting selfhosted applicatiions. Pihole was a disaster. It took half an all nighter and more searching than I should've done. Extra points off because I wanted to deploy…

The Zimaboard/CasaOS experience

This post is over a year old because I was too lazy smh. A draft was sitting in the posts tab page for the longest time. With that in mind, some beginning parts of the post below will talk about my parents' place, while the UPDATED TM parts of my…

The super late Oregon business trip post

Warning: Very image-heavy post ahead. Hilariously late because of adjusting to a new job and some general apartment renovations. Also mostly because transferring files from the phone to a computer wirelessly is still an unsolved QoL mystery in 2022. I'm sure ChatGPT will just say the usual Bluetooth or connect…

Business trip crash course 101

Things that you absolutely need to bring to assure a smooth experience: A very large thermos. Hotels usually give those dinky-ass Keurig coffee makers or the small brewers and only boil single cups at a time. How am I supposed to store my hot water?? (For best results, leech water…