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Notes from the homelab — write-ups on the tech I run at home and the projects I build around it.
Jul 31, 2026 · 8 min read · Open Source
A Backup You Can't Open: Eight Years of the Synology Cloud Sync Decryption Tool
A client backed up to a Synology NAS with Cloud Sync encryption — on macOS, where Synology ships no decryption tool. What started as one client's problem is now 136 stars, 36…
Jul 30, 2026 · 13 min read · Homelab
The Import That Succeeded: Rebuilding Emby Playback History for Tracearr
Tracearr can't read Emby's Playback Reporting data directly, so the path runs through Jellystat — and every hop quietly dropped something. Five problems later: 980 plays with IPs,…
Jul 29, 2026 · 5 min read · 3D Printing
One Millimetre of Plastic: Fixing FR2865 on the Creality K2 Plus
Every print that pulled from more than one CFS spool failed with FR2865 — usually after the part was already finished. Nothing was jammed. The filament cutter was leaving a…
Jul 28, 2026 · 9 min read · Homelab
Roku-Proofing a Media Library: One Tdarr Flow for HEVC, Subtitles and Disk Space
Some files in my Emby library simply would not play on Roku, and the cause wasn't the video at all — it was three subtitle track flags. Here's the Tdarr flow that fixes them…
Jul 27, 2026 · 12 min read · Projects
Chasing Centre Seats: Building a 70mm IMAX Seat Watcher for The Odyssey
Every 70mm IMAX showtime for Nolan's The Odyssey was sold out at both theatres near me. But seats get released constantly — so I captured Cineplex's own network traffic, turned a…
Jul 26, 2026 · 7 min read · Homelab
Locked Out by a 2016 Certificate: Supermicro IPMI KVM After the May 2026 Expiry
A power outage, a VPN, and a TLS certificate generated in 2016 that expired at 09:44 GMT on May 17, 2026 — taking the KVM console with it on a whole generation of Supermicro…