A running log of the harder problems I run into building and running my projects and home lab — and, more importantly, how I worked through them.
I keep this for two reasons. First, it's a reference for myself: when I hit something I've seen before, I can grep my own notes instead of re-solving it from scratch. Second, it's an honest record of how I think. I'm a self-taught engineer, so the method — how I isolate a problem, what I test first, how I reason from symptoms to root cause — matters more than any single fix.
Each entry follows the same shape: the symptom, how I worked the problem, the actual fix, and what I'd do to prevent it next time.
| # | Title | One-line |
|---|---|---|
| 001 | Windows 11 boot-drive recovery | Rebuilt a corrupted boot drive using only a microSD card and a 2009 laptop |
| 002 | Recovering a storm-killed Raspberry Pi node | A "dead" Pi was really four stacked problems — traced it to broken IPv6 and brought it back on the mesh |
New entries get added as I hit (and clear) new walls.