A chronological stream of quick updates, homelab notes, site changelogs, and everyday engineering discoveries. Less formal than long-form blog articles, more permanent than social posts.
Launched a dedicated /now page inspired by Derek Sivers’ now page movement. It captures a living snapshot of my current homelab plans, garden irrigation planning, and language study.
Also reorganized the footer navigation into clean, balanced columns and trimmed redundant text in favor of subtle inline icons.
Documented the storage migration plan away from VMware vSAN.
Identified the SAS HBA device on the PCIe bus to pass straight into a TrueNAS virtual machine. Passing the controller directly gives ZFS full raw access to the disks for smart health reporting, scrub management, and native pool resiliency without hypervisor abstraction layers in the middle.
Mapped out trench paths for water line drops to all four corners of the yard to pair with LinkTap wireless automated timers, plus dedicated conduit runs for low-voltage lighting and power.
Evaluating creeping ground-cover varieties to suppress weeds along the seams of a dry-stacked rock retaining wall, and weighing star jasmine against pyracantha for perimeter fencing.