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Black 2U rackmount server chassis at a three-quarter angle, with three hot-swap drive bays and blue latches at the left of the front panel, a perforated ventilation panel across the center, and rack-mounting ears with handles at each side

The chassis did not fit: finding an ultra-short 2U

I published a parts list three days ago. Then I measured the rack, and two lines of that list turned out to be wrong — the chassis and the cooler.

August 23, 20265 min read

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Top-down view of a Raspberry Pi 4 single-board computer, showing the SoC, USB and Ethernet ports and the GPIO header along one edge

Outgrowing my Raspberry Pi: a 3U home server parts list

Immich pegged my Raspberry Pi 4 at 100% for days and Jellyfin gave up on 4K HEVC. Here is the x86 rackmount build I picked to replace it, and why each part.

August 20, 20266 min read

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Two men sitting on red sofas on a red-lit studio set, talking across a low table holding branded coffee bags and mugs, with a framed show poster reading "The Tech Roast" between them and a burned-in subtitle reading "Yeah, we started with AI,"

The Tech Roast episode is out

The episode of Absa's podcast The Tech Roast that Laco Šulák and I recorded back in May is published. Here is where to watch it.

August 18, 20261 min read

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Moving my site to Astro: 548 kB of JavaScript, deleted

What I gained and what I paid moving this portfolio from Next.js to Astro — including a TypeScript 7 incompatibility and a build step that fails silently.

August 16, 20264 min read

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The Tech Roast: AI, event-driven AWS, and async patterns

Notes from recording an episode of Absa's podcast The Tech Roast with Laco Šulák — how we picked the four topics, and what a studio day looks like from an engineer's side.

May 28, 20263 min read

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