Part 10 of a series on the tools I actually run. I spend most of my day in a terminal, and over the years it’s accumulated a specific shape. Same font, …

Part 9 of a series on the tools I actually run. I stopped using plain ssh for interactive work a few years ago and I’m not going back. Not because SSH is …

Part 7 of a series on the tools I actually run. My parents are in Germany, both past eighty, and the radio situation in their house had quietly degraded. The …

Part 6 of a series on the tools I actually run. I’ve been promising this post for a while now, mostly at the bottom of other posts. Here’s the short …

Part 5 of a series on the tools I actually run. The setup, in one sentence: Qwen3.6 runs in LM Studio on my MacBook Air, LM Studio serves it over my tailnet, …

Part 4 of a series on the tools I actually run. I’ve got a YouTube live stream I put on while I work. Same one, most days. It’s not a sophisticated …

Part 3 of a series on the tools I actually run. Last time I said Homebrew is what makes a Mac feel like a workstation instead of an appliance. Here’s the …

I have a bit of a habit: grab obscure operating systems the day they land and go poke around inside them before anyone in English has written a word about it. …

Part 2 of a series on the tools I actually run. I have a confession that will annoy roughly half of the people reading this: my servers run Linux, my heart is …

I set up a Raspberry Pi Zero 2W as a small USB gadget device — plug it into a laptop, get a network interface, SSH in. Simple in theory. In practice, every …

This is the first post on Boot Journal, a place for tech notes and write-ups. A quick word on who is writing these: I am Johannes. By day I work in education; …