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Notes and articles on infrastructure automation, security engineering, and lessons from moving between very different technical fields. This section is just getting started.
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Putting My Files on Nextcloud, with the Corpus in Object StorageWhy I moved my files onto a self-hosted Nextcloud instance—and why the files themselves live in object storage rather than on the box that serves them.Read articleInstalling PhotoCraft on Linux: AppImage, Tarball, or From SourcePhotoCraft is a clean-room, open-source Photoshop rebuilt in pure Rust. Three ways to install it on Linux—the quick AppImage, a hand-placed tarball, or a build from source—with checksum verification and the one Wayland gotcha.Read articleRouting Sensitive Data Through Lumo Instead of Whatever's ConvenientWhy I moved anything involving confidential data onto Proton's Lumo via lumo-tamer, and relegated more experimental assistants to connections that never touch sensitive material.Read articleWhen the Motors Didn't Fit the Experiment: Rebuilding a Microscope StageWhy I tore the original X/Y steppers out of the mesoscope, moved to NEMA 17, and let the experiment—not the existing design—dictate the mechanics.Read articleUnderstanding ACME: What Automating Certificate Renewal Actually Taught MeNotes on deploying a certificate handler for automated Let's Encrypt issuance and renewal, and why understanding the ACME protocol mattered more than just running the tool.Read article