Backing up your data is one of the most important pillars of your digital presence–right alongside security and privacy. If you care about the data, it should be backed up. Period. For better or for worse, most people have outsourced their backup solutions to cloud providers like Microsoft OneDrive,

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Volume Java I've been hosting Minecraft servers for almost as long as I've been playing Minecraft. In the days before dedicated servers (or at least before I was aware of them), I would stand my Steve in a safe corner and leave my iMac on all

An Invaluable Tool I've been using Docker containers for several years to self-host services. They allowed me to scale up my network and services to multiple machines and networks while still remaining easily manageable. Once I got a solid grasp on containers, I started to wonder why people

I've finally taken the leap to update my site to something more modern and feature-filled. While I learned a lot and had a lot of fun writing the old site from scratch, I'd like to take advantage of the features a modern site has to offer.