Six Years of Dotfiles
What 1,048 commits across six years taught me about managing my own configuration — and why the quiet years matter more than the busy ones.
Occasional writing about Linux, infrastructure, self-hosting, and the parts of this job that are not really about computers.
What 1,048 commits across six years taught me about managing my own configuration — and why the quiet years matter more than the busy ones.
Three years of running ZFS at home, and the recurring lesson: the filesystem kept telling the truth about my hardware long before I was willing to hear it.
Running one server for a whole household. The hardware is the easy part — what keeps it alive is a written record, and a willingness to correct it.
My laptop kept freezing for half a minute at a time. I blamed the backup job for weeks. It was btrfs committing a transaction, and the fix was in GNOME Software.