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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 choices" hot. The weirder part: after a reboot, it would run cool for...
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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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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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