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.