My phone's Syncthing sync stuck at 99% and wouldn't finish. The cause was an empty directory git can't see, so `git clean -fd` kept deleting it while leaving every ignored folder alone.

Container isolation wasn't actually working. Sage was running two Hermes instances, cron jobs vanished into the wrong database, Telegram refused to send. I fixed all of that. Then the real bug turned out to be a Python loop that was never Docker's fault.

I ran three Hermes gateways as separate profiles on the same machine. Replies came from the wrong profile, Telegram connections fought each other. Here's why I containerised each one — and why that was only half the story.

Obsidian Sync costs $120 a year. I wasn't paying for yet another subscription. So I set up Syncthing with my always-on NucBox as the hub. Here's what I learned about the bits most guides skip.

I wanted to start fresh on X, but my history was flooded with content I no longer cared about that I had retweeted years ago. Sketchy deletion tools wanted my credentials. So I built a ZeroWork TaskBot to delete everything instead.

I bought an Asus RT-BE88U router to replace my ISP's Fritzbox WiFi. What I thought would be simple turned into a two-hour networking adventure. Here's what tripped me up.

After upgrading Unraid from 6.9 to 7.0.1, all my Docker containers became unmanageable - marked as '3rd party' and locked out of updates. Here's how I fixed it without recreating everything.