weather today
rain fell in torrents
umbrellas fought tsunamis
I went back to bed
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Tunnel Vision
Networking · OpenWrt · VPN · Self-Hosted A retired UDM, a dusty Raspberry Pi, and three VPN protocols walked into a hotel room. One of them eventually worked. 3 → 1 VPN Protocols Tried 5 Home VLANs Reachable $0 New Hardware The tunnel works. A sentence that took—I'm going to estimate
Zero Touch
Automation · Python · Self-Hosted Eight manual steps, reduced to zero. A sentence that took three weeks, two SSH key conflicts, a JavaScript runtime, and a SOCKS proxy to earn. 8 → 0 Manual Steps ~2 min Detection to Live $0.01 Monthly Cost The whole pipeline runs itself now. Eight manual steps,
Silent Mode Until They're Back
Tonight's dinner was not the dinner I intended to make. The plan had been 미역국—seaweed soup. I'd found a bag of frozen beef in the freezer earlier that day, labeled 국거리용, soup meat, and it felt like the universe was doing me a favor for
Committed to CCNP
I was sitting in a livestream today with Chuck, Jeremy, Anthony, and Zach. Chuck said something about getting his CCNP if 1,000 people earned their CCNA. The crowd went nuts. And somewhere in that noise, I made a decision I've been circling for a long time. I&