Proxmox and TrueNAS get all the homelab hype, and I get why. I just don’t run either of them on my VMs, and it’s not because I don’t know what they are.

Seven Royal Caribbean cruises, and the hardest part was never the packing. It was figuring out how to be a person who isn’t useful for a week.

I have services running on my homelab right now that I couldn’t tell you the login for. Here’s what actually gets used every day, what’s quietly collecting dust, and what that gap actually costs.

Blogging in 2026 feels about as culturally relevant as owning a fax machine. Here’s why I do it anyway, and why the reason probably isn’t what you’d expect.

Remember when buying software meant you actually owned it? Those days are gone, and the subscription economy has turned us all into permanent tenants of our own digital lives.

Plex Pass isn’t a scam, but paying a monthly fee to unlock features on a server you already own and run yourself is a hard argument to make. Here’s where Emby ships what Plex sells.

The labels aren’t wrong that AI music changes everything. They’re just wrong about which part of “everything” they should be worried about.

I spent 55 years running on a brain nobody had a name for. Turns out it built something real anyway — but not without a cost worth being honest about.

I built a media server empire spanning four NAS units and a dedicated Emby setup. My family mostly watches the same twelve things on repeat.

The industry spent twenty years building a mythology around who belongs in technology. Most of it was never true, and the parts that were true stopped being true a long time ago.