Infrastructure documentation and technical deep-dives from systems I actually run. Where something has been switched off or was never built, it says so.
A retrieval-first Discord helper for a DayZ community, built around an unusual goal: its most important feature is silence. A free local gate before any API call, citations verified in code rather than trusted, and a test suite assembled entirely from the bot's own past lies.
A user lifecycle system I built for my Plex server — welcome emails, inactivity warnings, automated removal — that ran for 61 users with almost no daily intervention. It has since been retired: it was bound to an API I did not control, and Plex changed the terms.
Eight 20 TB disks in RAID-Z2, in a JBOD I fabricated myself, attached over a SAS HBA in IT mode. What the hardware is, why the pool got rebuilt from scratch, where the backups actually go, and which parts of it I would not defend.
A design for handing the messy work to a ZimaBoard edge node and leaving TrueNAS to do storage. Still on the roadmap: measurement moved a network upgrade ahead of it, because the constraint turned out to be the 2.5 GbE link rather than the workloads.