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Introducing Cinemetric

I spend a lot of time inside my Plex server. Not watching things, mostly. Poking at it. How much space is left? Did that last batch of movies actually match? Why is someone's stream transcoding? Is there a Plex update waiting again? Every one of those answers already exists somewhere. It's just scattered across...
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A Sharper Glimpse

The usual way to show someone what's on your media server is to give them an account. Which also signs you up as their tech support, hands a near-stranger a door into your server, and turns one small question — do you have this movie? — into a...
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Introducing Marquee

I already built a Plex poster manager. It's called Posteria, it works, and people use it every day. So the reasonable thing to do was leave it alone. Instead, I rewrote the whole thing from scratch. Marquee is that rewrite — a self-hosted web app...
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Cooling the MS-A1 for $25

My Proxmox host had a problem. The Minisforum MS-A1 sitting on my shelf was hot. Not "warm because the aluminum chassis doubles as a heatsink" hot — that part is by design. This was "put your hand on the lid and immediately reconsider your life...
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Stickies

A Sticky Note App That Doesn't Want Your Email Every note-taking app eventually asks you for the same thing. Make an account. Confirm your email. Pick a workspace. Maybe a free trial of the tier that actually syncs. You wanted somewhere to dump a...
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RetroCities Portfolio

A Portfolio That Boots Like It's 1996 Every developer eventually stares at their personal site and feels the same gravitational pull toward the same template. A clean hero. A soft gradient. Three little feature cards. Maybe a dark-mode toggle if...
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whoami - Terminal Résumé

A Résumé 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...
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