// Thinking out loud
WRITING
Longer pieces, when something has been rattling around long enough to deserve more than a log entry. Infrastructure, self-hosting, and the occasional detour into robots.
Why I stopped trusting the cloud with my own data
Moving backups, notes and media onto hardware I can physically unplug — and the convenience I traded away for it.
Setting up my home network the slow way
Splitting one flat network into guest, IoT and personal VLANs without taking the whole house offline at once.
Inverse kinematics, four legs, and one very patient thesis advisor
What solving a walking robot taught me about writing backends: constraints first, motion second.