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whoami - Terminal Resume

A Resume That Boots Like a Terminal Every developer eventually hits the same wall with the personal site. You want something that says "I write code" without saying it in a generic hero section with a gradient and three feature cards. You could build the usual portfolio. Or you could make the thing itself the demo....
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Bludit Shortcodes!

If you've written more than a handful of posts in any CMS, you've probably had this moment: you find yourself typing the same little chunk of markup over and over. The YouTube embed boilerplate. A "last updated" line. The same callout box markup....
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Bludit Docker

The goal of this project is to create a quick containerized environment with a Bludit installation for testing and development purposes. You can stop and start the container without overwriting your Bludit install. The following technologies are...
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Evolution of a Homelab

This site has been around, in one form or another, since 2019. It didn't start as a personal site or a homelab journal. It started as a learning project, and for most of its life it lived under a different name: pilab.dev. Looking back at it now,...
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Offline Homelab Docs

If you've run a homelab for any length of time, you've probably had the same thought I have: "I should really write this down." You spin up a Proxmox host, throw a few LXCs on it, add a NAS, layer in some VMs, expose a handful of services, and a...
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· Media Servers

Glimpse into your media

Most of the tooling around self-hosted media servers is aimed at the people running them. Dashboards, request systems, analytics, transcoder tweaks. All useful, all important, but none of it really answers a much simpler question that comes up all...
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CLIX - Plex in your terminal!

If you run a Plex server, you already know the routine. You sit down, open the app, scroll through your library, pick something, hit play. It works, and it works well. But there's a particular kind of moment, usually late at night, often over an...
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