Writings

Notes & write-ups

Things I've figured out, usually the hard way. No schedule, no theme — just whatever I felt like writing down.

• Aug 23, 2026 The disk was never the problem How I spent an evening moving 12GB of Docker images around a Raspberry Pi to fix a problem that turned out to be RAM.

In the pipeline

Drafted, not written. Mostly tangents I kept hitting while building the things on the projects page.

• soon An exposition on... Why I name my devices Gotta have some whimsy in ur life man
• soon Coverflow The best music browsing interface ever shipped, and nobody has replaced it.
• soon Deprecated Apple features I miss A list of things that worked, shipped, and then quietly disappeared.
• soon How I lost a lifetime Ultimate Guitar Pro pass I had lifetime access. Then I didn't. A short story about what "lifetime" means.
• soon On upserts ON CONFLICT DO UPDATE, and why idempotent writes are worth the up-front thought.
• soon Ultimate Guitar's search hates apostrophes Why "Don't" returns garbage and "Dont" returns 77 tabs — and my theories on what's happening under the hood.
• soon What not knowing music theory does to a musician Twenty years of playing before I learned the words for what I was doing.
• soon What's on MrPiPi A tour of the automation Pi: Home Assistant, pi-hole, the touchscreen, and the voice stack.
• soon What's on pi-nappleXpress A tour of the media Pi: what runs on it, what storage hangs off it, and why it's the one with the drives.