LATEST POSTS
-
Fixing the Things You Actually See: Homarr & PlexTraktSync
Not every open source fix is deep in the engine. Sometimes it’s the dashboard that’s slightly wrong or the sync that quietly stops working after item 100. This week I fixed a few of those. 🖥️ The Front End of the Home Lab My home lab’s “front end” is the stuff I actually look at…
-
Adding What Was Missing
Some contributions don’t fix anything broken — they add something that simply was never there. A new API method that should have existed from the start. A startup check that saves you two days of debugging. Metadata that keeps a registry accurate. Here are four contributions in the “now it exists” category. Kometa: Add E4…
-
How to Find Open-Source Issues Worth Actually Fixing
So you’ve decided to dip your toes into open source. Great. Now comes the part nobody warns you about: finding an issue that’s actually worth your time. Not too hard, not already taken, and not doomed to rot in “needs design review” purgatory forever. I recently went through this process with WordPress/gutenberg and a few…
-
How I Used AI to Turn Two Years of Gym Data Into a Blog
A few months ago I had a weird idea: what if I could take every single workout I’ve logged over the past two years and turn it into a series of blog posts — without writing them all by hand? I’d been tracking everything in the HEVY app religiously, and somewhere in that data was…
-
5 PRs Across the *arr Stack: Fixing the Plumbing in My Home Lab
I use Radarr, Sonarr, and Prowlarr. Which means I also notice when something is broken. This week I stopped ignoring those rough edges and started working on them. 🎬 The Stack If you run a home media server, you probably know the *arr ecosystem. Radarr grabs movies. Prowlarr indexes them. Bazarr subtitles them. Kometa organizes…
-
Updating the Blog –
HOSTING on WordPress.com I have been running this site on WordPress.com for a while now, and it keeps getting better. Between the managed hosting infrastructure, the rock-solid security, the speed optimizations baked right in, and the exciting direction WordPress itself is heading, I wanted to take a moment to share what I am running and…
-
5 PRs, 5 Projects, 1 Day: My First Open-Source Contributions
I’ve been meaning to contribute to open source for a while. Not just in a vague “I should do that someday” way — but actually doing it. Finding a bug, fixing it, opening a PR, and shipping something real. Today I finally did it. Five times. Here’s what I worked on, what I fixed, and…
-
Phase 8: The Current Protocol — My Most Optimized 4-Day Training Engine
Phase 8 is the current protocol — a refined 4-day Upper A / Lower A / Upper B / Lower B split running alongside my peptide protocol. Here’s the full muscle group breakdown and current working weights.
-
Life Update – Life Giving Lemons
Most of the time, this blog is a mix of travel itineraries, random updates, and whatever coding project I’m currently tinkering with, like my weather app or my calculator app. But today’s post is a bit heavier. Claire and I are divorced. It’s hard to summarize the end of a marriage in a blog post,…
LATEST PROJECTS
-
Weather App
A simple weather tracking app using OpenWeather’s API. Once the user grants location permission, the app will automatically display weather data for that location including:
-
Calculator App
Just a calculator application. This was my third JS project. I started with building just the functionality, then I added buttons for parentheses to practice order of operations. Then I started styling the calculator because why not? The design is inspired by retro calculators from manufacturers such as CASIO. I really like how the button…
-
Unit Converter App
A simple unit converter application. This was my second JS project. I started with just weight, then added temperature and distance. I focused a bit more on CSS for this app and found a neat background pattern to use.
WELLNESS TIPS NEWSLETTER
Sign up for free and be the first to get notified about updates.