Everyone wants to talk about the flashy gear. Nobody wants to talk about the box sitting quietly in the corner that makes all of it matter. That’s the NAS, and it deserves a harder look than it gets.

I’ve burned more Saturday afternoons than I care to count fixing Docker Compose files that should have worked fine from the start. Here’s what I actually learned, and it wasn’t from documentation.

DDLs in Exchange look like they solve the membership problem automatically. They do. They just solve it on their own schedule, using logic you probably haven’t read in six months.

After twenty eight years of fixing networks that shouldn’t be broken, here are the most common screw-ups I see people make with their home setups.

After years of breaking things, fixing them, and occasionally making them better, here are the tech tips that have saved my bacon more times than I can count. No fluff, just the stuff that works.

After years of breaking things in my home lab and learning the hard way, here are the tech tips I wish someone had whispered in my ear before I started this journey.