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Why I moved this blog from a WordPress container to a static Zola site, how the posts got converted straight out of the database, and what broke along the way.

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Replacing a discontinued Logitech Harmony with a cheap Bluetooth remote, a Python event listener, and Home Assistant automations, with no cloud involved.

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Using an always-free Oracle Cloud VM and a WireGuard tunnel to OPNsense to expose self-hosted services publicly without opening ports at home.

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Automatically backing up a remote IMAP mailbox to a home server with mbsync, then serving the archive locally with Dovecot so any mail client can read it.