Over the past three weeks I’ve been completely overhauling my home server setup, and I’ve learned a lot throughout the process that I thought I’d document it here in a build log.

datahoarding unraid backups

Right now I’m in the middle of a whole-house PC upgrade, and the result of that process is that my current home-server will become an off-site backup server. That means I’ll have a new, much more powerful 32TB server at...

python datahoarding backups

Welcome to Zoom University, where students listen to lectures recorded through a Pringles can stuffed with tinfoil and people yell “Sorry I missed that” every 30 seconds in meetings because someone’s dog started barking.

audio zoom obs microphones

I recently found myself having to iteratively perform a complicated series of buffers, intersects, and joins over a large geodataframe. This isn’t necessarily a problem for one-off operations where you can afford to wait a while, but if you plan...

geopandas python performance