To be "terminally-online" is to be deeply engaged on social media, consuming YouTube creator-driven drama, or spending a significant amount of one's free time doing online activities. Personal interests are focused on some form of...

Like many, I've always romanticized the idea of traveling long-term, all while earning my living solely through my laptop and my phone. I've loosely experimented with this, traveling for periods from a week to three months while working...

I've been thinking about how my digital consumption habits have changed over the last year. Lately, I've found myself consuming too many movies and shows and spending less time reading and writing. I wake up then turn on the TV while I...

A few years ago I read Cixin Liu's Remembrance of Earth's Past trilogy (The Three Body Problem, The Dark Forest, and Death's End) and I recently revisited it in audiobook format. The Dark Forest is my favorite in the trilogy because it...

After hearing a lot of praise for Proxmox both online and in my courses (from both fellow students and instructors), I decided to experiment with it in my homelab environment. I also wanted to get hands on experience with it after...

The storage drives connected to my servers are LUKS-encrypted which means every time the server restarts I need to manually decrypt and then mount them. This hasn't been much of an issue since I hardly ever had to reboot my servers, but...

I have plans to eventually set up a VPN to access my home network, but in the meantime, I opted to set up a Cloudflare Tunnel to access certain local resources. I also just wanted to play around with Cloudflare Tunnel which is part of...