Recovering a site when only the HTML remains
Start with a byte-for-byte baseline, then separate content from its repeated page shell.
Build Log →Build Log / field notes
Things I don’t want
to solve twice.
Practical changes, stubborn problems and the occasional longer story. Not everything needs to become a polished essay.
Notes & articles
A Year Building UMA Companion: Why I Sunset the Project
What began as a support-card manager became a desktop app, an optimizer, a data pipeline, and a live game companion before I decided that continuing to maintain it no longer made sense.
UMA Companion →Why I Moved Plex and Jellyfin from TrueNAS to Debian
Why moving storage and media services to one Debian VM made my homelab simpler to operate.
The homelab →From UmaOptimizer to UmaCompanion: The Earlier Architecture
How UmaCompanion began as a Python and PySide6 desktop app before its current Rust and TypeScript rebuild.
UMA Companion →Monitoring the Homelab with Beszel
Setting up Beszel as a lightweight, clean, node-based monitoring dashboard across Proxmox, Pi 4, and Windows.
The homelab →The Missing Piece: Adding a Raspberry Pi 4 to the Homelab
Why adding a dedicated Raspberry Pi 4 Model B for 24/7 low-power DNS & services was the best upgrade for my homelab.
The homelab →Compact / progress and milestones
Short updates
Closing the UMA Companion chapter
Active development ended. The case study and the lessons stay.
UMA Companion →Media services moved to Debian
Storage ownership moved from TrueNAS to Debian; Plex data was preserved.
The media migration →A smaller machine, a separate job
Documented the Raspberry Pi service split and Beszel monitoring.
The Raspberry Pi setup →