GitHub wanted money for Actions on a private repo. The NAS in the closet was already running Gitea. Here is the full recipe for turning it into a CI runner, with an AI agent doing almost all of it.
Read more →My VPS backups were quietly incomplete. Closing the gaps with an encrypted nightly rotation pushed into git, and a quarterly drill that restores everything and emails me when it can't.
Read more →This blog now has email subscriptions and visitor analytics, and neither involves a third-party service — one mail gateway, one Umami container, and some HMAC math instead of a token table.
Read more →This blog had no sitemap, no social cards, no canonical URLs, and dead links that never 404'd. Here's the full audit, every fix, and how it now draws its own social card for every post.
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