Posts
All the articles I've posted.
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ChatMural: I built a pixel canvas your stream chat paints together
A weekend project that turned into a real product: a 64×64 collaborative pixel canvas that drops into OBS as a browser source. Next.js, Fastify, raw WebSockets, a 4 KB Redis buffer, and Postgres snapshots — here's the whole stack.
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The case that could breathe (homelab, part 3)
Updated:Assembling into a new case: a glass panel with no screws, missing drive brackets, the coarse-vs-fine screw thread nobody explains, a SATA connector that wouldn't clear, an fTPM prompt after the board swap, and seven fans stuck on red until OpenRGB fixed what the vendor software couldn't.
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New board, first beep (homelab, part 2)
Updated:The verdict on the dead motherboard: ruptured crystal oscillators, no replacement available. Two months later, a new board, a barebones test that actually spins — and a reminder that a two-euro speaker would have saved me a lot of guessing.
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Breadboarding the dead desktop (homelab, part 1)
Pulling the motherboard out of the case to test it on cardboard. Two hours of dust, a suffocated PSU, an obscure chasm full of HDDs — and a verdict.