Asphyxiation by Oxygen Hands

The story of my life: I forgot how I set up my local blog dev environment and it stopped working because OpenSSL certificate broke.

This is a follow-up to my post about setting up Calibre book library on my local server.

This procedure was scary and felt like stumbling around a maze in a blindfold.

Image credit: GMKtec I acquired a new server: the tiny, affordable GMKtec NucBox G3.

This my most popular article on Medium (23K views, 8.6K reads, wow!)

David Lynch’s death inspired me to rewatch my favorite movie of his: Lost Highway.

A couple of weeks ago, I made an attempt to reduce USB hard drive noise by idling it automatically.

Thoroughly enjoyed At Night all Blood is Black by David Diop.

I’m tweaking my setup to reduce reliance on the noisy external hard drive.

Wikipedia: In an August 2024 interview with Sight and Sound, Lynch said he was suffering from emphysema due to years of smoking, and had become housebound due to health risks. (…) In January 2025, Lynch was evacuated from his home due to the Southern Cali…