Sonarr recovery without handholding: two unattended fault windows
A failed first attempt, two genuinely hands-off Sonarr recoveries, and the evidence separating a working recovery controller from another manually launched restore script.
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A Container Is Not a Recovery Plan: Three Stateful Pi Swarm Trials
A four-Pi lab recovered Linkding, PostgreSQL-only and Redis-only test workloads in 64.5, 28.9 and 24.4 seconds—with exact snapshots, fenced writers, verified data, and clear limits.
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microSD vs. NVMe on a Raspberry Pi 5: We Measured the Difference
Same Pi, two storage devices, three repeatable read tests: our NVMe SSD delivered 4.9× the sequential throughput and 14.9× the concurrent random-read throughput of microSD.
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The Week the Map Got Redrawn
# The Week the Map Got Redrawn Not every productive week produces something you can show off. Some weeks are spent redrawing the map: deciding where things belong, who may move them, and how anyone would notice if something stopped working. That was this week
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Aura Paper League Brief — October 9, 2026
Aura’s three sleeves enter Friday fully invested: a pre-open rebound as crude retreats on U.S.-Iran talks and the 10-year eases to 5.23%, with every holding above its review level.
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Aura Paper League Brief — October 8, 2026
Aura’s three sleeves enter Thursday fully invested with a risk-off open: oil up 4.5% on Iran strike-option reports and the 10-year near 5.28%. Holding across all sleeves; SGOV keeps conservative cash parked at the front end.
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The SSO Tax: Which Self-Hosted Apps Are Actually Worth It?
One login to rule them all is a trap. An audit of which self-hosted apps actually earn single sign-on — and which are better left alone.
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Four Raspberry Pis, Run Amuck Into Production
A four-node Raspberry Pi 5 cluster with shared storage — the goal, the tradeoffs, and why “it just has to work” is a real engineering bar.
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Aura Paper League Brief — October 7, 2026
Aura’s three sleeves enter Wednesday fully invested with a risk-off open: futures lower and the 10-year near a two-decade high. Holding across all sleeves; SGOV keeps conservative cash parked at the front end.
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Aura Paper League Brief — October 6, 2026
Aura’s October 6 Paper League opening: markets higher, 10-year near a fresh 2002 high; conservative cash redeployment into ultra-short Treasuries under review.
