Post of the month: jul 2026
So I have been having a rough go at running a blog lately.
Running a self-hosted Ghost install turned out to be an exercise in extreme frustration, and ended in a VERY satisfying ghost uninstall. But the blog bug had bitten me. I needed to self host a blog that I could ignore after an initia...
No seriously, WTH.
I have, for DECADES now, had a personal server of one sort or another to run the web pages and ill conceived projects that come into my head. The first dedicated server was an old Dell Pentium 3 workstation that I got from an office move that I was contracted to help on. They ha...
Honestly, I just need to learn to leave good enough alone.
In an update to the previous Home Server Saga: It crashed again. Same issue, systemctl-journald core dumped and it was unresponsive. I had noticed during my previous log reviews that every time, before journald dumped core and the system became frozen, that Plex was running its Chapter Thumbnail g...
Welcome back to the ScummBlog!
After FAR too long of languishing un-updated, the ScummBlog returns with a shiny new Grav backend! I enjoy the simplicity of its flat file structure, so far.
I will repost the few blog posts that existed on my now deleted with extreme prejudice Ghost install....
Finally learning when to leave good enough alone
So I finally got the homeserver happy (It's current uptime is at 41 days, 20 hours and 33 minutes!) Plex was getting killed when trying to do intro/outro detection on an ANCIENT anime DVD rip. I ripped a new copy and Plex stopped dying every night. Once it stopped dying every night, I stopped gettin...
Tales of woe from the IT Trenches.
Well, Scumm_Boy's just zis guy, ya know?