Phase 2 of my Quartz notes site: I reviewed every setting, turned on opt-in publishing, proved private notes stay private with a test note and grep, found my email already exposed in old GitHub commits, and pushed a clean first commit — mistakes included.
I'm building a public notes site at notes.ny2honolulu.com with Quartz 5 and Obsidian. Phase 1 covers the local build: a public repo, an opt-in privacy plan, triaging six "high" npm vulnerabilities, and a port conflict — including the mistakes.
I set up REA, an open-source reverse-engineering tool, to drive headless Ghidra 12.1.4 on Debian 13. It took three Java versions, one verified download and a six-line shell function. Along the way it taught me S3 presigned URLs, ELF internals and a few habits I'll keep.
A routine Unsloth Studio update printed a launch command ending in -H 0.0.0.0. One port check later, I found Docker containers, an unauthenticated Ollama API and a year-old SQL Server all open to my network. Here's the audit, every command, and why each fix maps to AWS and Black Hat Python.
A routine Tumbleweed update turned into three dependency conflicts, a wrong first theory, and a round of whack-a-mole with zypper's numbered solutions. Here's how zypper se -s revealed Packman was ahead of openSUSE, not behind, and how moving six VLC packages in one command cleared the way for a 190-package upgrade. Plus a sidebar on how pasting my own prompt created two mystery files.
Rust switched on its biggest compiler change in a decade, but only on nightly. Here's how I proved my Debian desktop has the new trait solver, using one tiny program, three builds and zero guesswork.
Jev doesn't just classify text — it decides which AI model should handle your prompt. Here's how I built a working model router using LangChain's TypeSafe integration that sends simple questions to a fast cheap model and complex ones to a powerful one, all in under 50 lines of Python.
My author page said "Comments: 1." Finding that one comment took me through a vanished admin menu, a redirecting URL, a forgotten WPCode snippet, 110 spam bots, and an MLB scores script I'd forgotten I wrote. By the end, the count was zero.
A kernel update left my Omarchy laptop waiting 90 seconds on every boot for a TPM that would never answer. I traced it through systemd's critical chain, fixed it with one kernel parameter, and cut userspace boot from 1m38s to 5.3s. Then I set up Claude Code to explain every command before it runs, so I stop copying commands I don't understand and start learning Black Hat Python the right way.
Before adding a database table to a working feature, it's worth asking what actually changes — not just in the code, but in what you're now responsible for. A planning walkthrough for turning a stateless AI-triage feature into a persistent, queryable one, and the retention and privacy questions that come before the first line of SQL.