Interested in Linux, self-hosted services, and software development, with occasional posts about games. This blog documents problems I run into, solutions that work, and tools or projects worth sharing.
A quick note on a MinerU install gotcha: uv tool install "mineru[all]" only handles the Python side. To run hybrid-engine on Arch, you still need the system packages cuda and ninja.
Honcho’s first startup Alembic migration pins the pgvector embedding column to vector(1536), which conflicts with EMBEDDING_VECTOR_DIMENSIONS=1024 in .env and causes startup to fail. This post documents fixing it with the official configure_embeddings.py script.
Create a virtual display on KDE Wayland using krfb-virtualmonitor, paired with Sunshine’s kwin capture and Moonlight’s built-in display switching. No kernel parameters required.
A walkthrough of configuring an Agent with Playwright MCP and CloakBrowser, covering shared installation, Linux setup, and launching the Windows host browser from WSL.
Rootless Podman writes auth.json to a temporary runtime directory by default. This article records how to persist the authfile and set REGISTRY_AUTH_FILE.
This article summarizes a general troubleshooting workflow for self-hosted mail servers, covering common issues around DNS, ports, TLS, service binding, client autodiscovery, and local network interference.
PostgreSQL 18 changed the default data directory used by the official Docker image. This article walks through a practical migration from PostgreSQL 17 to 18 with backup, container recreation, data restore, and cleanup.
