I moved from Synology to a Ugreen 4800 Plus running TrueNAS. It was louder than expected. I measured everything, printed a few mods, swapped the fan, and ended up with a NAS that is both quieter and cooler where it matters.
Automating What Backblaze Lifecycle Rules Don’t Do Instantly
Backblaze’s ‘keep last version’ rule doesn’t delete old versions immediately. I found 21,000 extras and automated the cleanup with rclone.
I Tried Gleam for Advent of Code, and I Get the Hype
A 12 day Advent of Code year convinced me Gleam is the real deal, thanks to Rust-like errors, great pipes, and surprisingly ergonomic FP.
Imgur Geo-Blocked the UK, So I Geo-Unblocked My Entire Network
Imgur started blocking UK users. Rather than installing a VPN on every device, I set up a network-wide proxy that tunnels Imgur traffic through a VPN automatically.
OpenAI Demo’d Fixing Issue #2472 Live. It’s Still Open.
OpenAI live-fixed a bug on stage during their GPT-5 launch, promised to merge it after the show, and three months later it’s still broken. Nobody seems to care.