A Technology Blog and Stuff
I recently ran into a DNS problem that looked like a WordPress or reverse-proxy failure: the VM hosting my automation tools could reach the network, but resolving the public name for my own blog was…
I have been adding MCP (Model Context Protocol) to the systems I already operate at home: storage, networking, and this WordPress site. The useful part is not giving an AI unrestricted shell access. It is…
I have two EcoFlow DELTA Pro Ultra battery systems behind a Smart Home Panel 2. The useful part is not just seeing battery percentage in Home Assistant; it is making the battery follow the time-of-use…
I run Hermes as a self-hosted AI agent in a small KVM lab rather than installing it directly on my workstation. The VM is configured as a QEMU q35 guest with 8 GiB assigned memory.…
Why the blog went silent This blog has been quiet since 2014. Not because I stopped tinkering — the homelab kept growing (TrueNAS, UniFi, Proxmox/KVM, solar automation) — but because life happened and the site…
I have been having USB 3.0 device problems for a while now, some of the devices are IOGEAR USB 3.0 Hub, Corsair Voyager GT 3.0 Flash drives and some some others, when I was copying…
Image regenerated 2026 — original lost in site migration. gfxCardStatus is a great tool to help you control which GPU your new Retina MacBook Pro will use. This will also work on other Macs that…
Having a disk quota on a shared system is very useful, you can control how much data each user can store on the system. In this tutorial I will assume that you have many partitions…
The Linux OS the tends keep Cached memory because the it decides that the Cached memory is being used and is needed which can lead to memory issues and slow down your system. To fix…
This will delete all files and directories old than 7 days within /tmp or other directory you specify, it will only look for files within that directory and not sub-directories. find /tmp/ -maxdepth 1 -mtime…
