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Sarasota sits at 85–95% relative humidity all summer. Here’s what that actually does to vinyl records, turntables, and original paper sleeves — and the practical steps that keep a Florida collection in better shape than you found it.

How a Roon log file exposed Qobuz's CDN delivering HTTP 200 responses with zero bytes — and why Tidal's infrastructure turned out to be measurably more reliable for a serious hi-res listening setup.

Carbon black isn't just a pigment — it's the reason classic black pressings stay quieter, attract less static, and hold their grooves more precisely than colored or picture disc variants.

An iPhone 17 Pro Max in one pocket, a Leica Q3 over the shoulder, and the reason I still leave the house with both.

Scanning Dad’s Kodachrome and Ektachrome, finding three-year-old me with a Fisher-Price camera, and why I still shoot mostly black and white with a Leica that makes me slow down.

From hand-tramming a glass bed on a Creality Ender 3 to walking away from a Bambu Lab A1 mid-print — what two years of FDM printing taught me about design, calibration, and getting out of your own way.

Three HP DL360 G7s ran the virtualization stack for more than twelve years. A pair of Dell OptiPlex 7090 desktops replaced them — and took a space heater’s worth of heat out of the garage with them.

A Sarasota web server hosting static sites behind Apache, OWASP CRS, and Fail2Ban. For me, owning the blast radius still beats renting someone else’s edge.

Thirteen custom Zabbix templates — built with Claude Code — to watch a decade-old server cluster, a kids' Minecraft fleet, a website firewall, a ham radio reflector network, the switching fabric, and the NAS holding every backup in the house — none of which any vendor ever wrote a template for.

Thirty years of enterprise IT discipline applied to ARRG.US reflectors — test VMs, Zabbix monitoring, Pi-Star hotspots, and the mentor who showed me a hotspot and changed everything.

What it actually looks like to run AI models locally at home — no cloud, no subscriptions, no data leaving the building. A practical account from someone who’s done it.

An introduction to the three specialized AI agents built on the Hermes Agent framework and deployed on the haney.local homelab network: Tux owns Linux, Clippy owns the Microsoft stack, Packet owns the network. Three specialists, one system — each staying in their lane because deep focus produces better outcomes than a generalist stretched thin.