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📌 Late Thursday in Gourock. Heating still off for the season, the desk lamp on the warm setting, Blut Aus Nord's 777 - Sect(s) in the headphones because the album's drone matches the mood of reading a kernel changelog at midnight. The kind of evening I was going to spend reading a novel and instead spent reading apt-cache policy linux-image-amd64.

📌 More than one night in Gourock, the heating off, the UM690L breathing hard. Xandria's The Wonders Still Awaiting in the headphones throughout - Reborn on loop while qwen3.6 spent four hundred seconds explaining itself to me one bash script at a time.

📌 Two nights, no sleep, and a novel finished. David Townsend in the headphones throughout.

📌 "The best time to degoogle was more than ten years ago. The second best time is before they make it impossible." - nobody famous, but somebody right -

📌 Soen in the headphones. NextDNS finally off the shelf.

📌 Spent the night writing about the homelab paradox. It will be published — sometime — on an external outlet. Listening Ghost, mostly. The playlist tracked the mood.

📌 Migrated this site from MkDocs Material to Zola tonight. The trigger was simple: MkDocs feels like a project running on inertia. Faun playing in the headphones throughout.

📌 pfSense. Installed months ago. Never touched. Tonight that changed.

📌 Sent the letter to the solicitor this evening. Green Lung in the headphones throughout.

📌 Spent the night building centralised authentication for the homelab. Blind Guardian in the headphones. The goal: one LDAP source of truth for every host, no more per-machine root access.

📌 Updated wg-easy tonight. Twenty-two months of accumulated bit rot, compressed into a thirty-minute session. Kreator in the headphones throughout.

📌 Built a network monitoring setup tonight. Two LXC containers on Proxmox, ntopng for traffic analysis, ntfy for push notifications. Sakis Tolis in the headphones throughout.

📌 The site has two new pages now - Music and Books. Not because anyone asked, but because a personal site without those feels incomplete. They say more about a person than any CV ever could.

Speaking of which - the CV is coming. Soon. Probably after the next sleepless night. Or maybe not...