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I was running two media servers, Audiobookshelf for audiobooks and Kavita for ebooks, when one could do both. Rebuilding the homelab in v3 was the excuse to merge them: one Ansible-deployed Audiobookshelf, local-disk storage, and a USB-drive ZFS scare in the middle of the migration.
Backlogia is a self-hosted app that pulls your game libraries from Steam, GOG, Epic and more into one place. Before I would run it I read the code, found four security gaps, and forked it. Then Starlette and a CORS bug had opinions too.
Why I stopped treating RouterOS and RouterBOARD updates as one-off SSH sessions, and how an Ansible playbook handles backup, package install, reboot waits, and firmware in order.
What the modern Rails 8 default stack looks like, how to bolt on Tailwind v4, ViewComponent, and Cuprite, and the gotchas that will slow you down if you miss them.
Why I looked at Prometheus Node Exporter on laptops, how macOS alternatives compare, and why I cancelled the project after the math stopped working.
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