Moving my photo backups to a tiny box
September 2026
After two years of paying for cloud storage I finally moved everything to a small server in the closet. Sync runs every night, snapshots are kept for 30 days, and the whole thing draws less power than a light bulb.
Notes on a calm reading setup
July 2026
An RSS reader, a plain text notes folder and a weekly review. That's the whole system. No notifications, no algorithmic feeds.
Pour-over ratios I keep coming back to
May 2026
1:16 for lighter roasts, 1:15 for anything darker. Water just off the boil, a 40 second bloom, total time around three minutes.