Technical Notes

Field notes from repair work, homelab projects, cybersecurity labs, and automation experiments.

A lightweight knowledge base for practical troubleshooting notes, project writeups, and lab documentation.

Notes Index

Public-Safe Technical Writeups

Coming SoonRepair Diagnostics

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How I Approach Screen Failure vs. GPU Failure Diagnosis

A practical troubleshooting note on distinguishing display assembly issues, cable problems, external display behavior, and possible GPU-related faults.

RepairDiagnosticsHardwareDocumentation
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Coming SoonAI Automation

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Building an AI Repair Ticket Triage Workflow

Notes on designing Hermes to summarize repair tickets, identify likely workflows, and draft customer-friendly updates.

HermesAIRepairDeskMakeTelegram
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Coming SoonHomelab

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My Homelab Monitoring Stack: What I Run and Why

A breakdown of the monitoring, security, DNS, remote access, and infrastructure tools in my personal lab.

ProxmoxUptime KumaWazuhCrowdSecAdGuard
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Coming SoonCybersecurity

Date: TBD

Using Wireshark and tshark in a Packet Capture Investigation

A cybersecurity lab note focused on filtering packet captures, reviewing DNS and sessions, and documenting evidence.

WiresharktsharkNetworkMinerForensics
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Coming SoonLocal AI

Date: TBD

How I Use Local LLMs for Troubleshooting and Automation

A practical note on using LM Studio, OpenCode, VS Code, Continue, and local model workflows for technical work.

LM StudioOpenCodeContinueVS CodeLocal LLMs
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Coming SoonRepair Workflow

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Setting Up Offline Email Access for Customers

A repair-shop-focused note on helping users preserve access to old messages and attachments through local mail clients and backups.

EmailBackupCustomer SupportDocumentation
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Coming SoonWindows Repair

Date: TBD

My Windows Corruption Repair Workflow

A structured approach to diagnosing startup issues, corrupted system files, failed updates, and unstable Windows installs.

WindowsDISMSFCRecoveryBackup
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Coming SoonWeb Deployment

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What I Learned Preparing a Base44 App for Apache Deployment

A note on auditing a web app for deployment readiness, frontend build output, Apache compatibility, and handoff documentation.

ApacheViteTypeScriptDeployment
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DraftmacOS Repair

Date: TBD

Legacy Mac Upgrade & OpenCore Workflow

A repair workflow for evaluating unsupported Macs, creating installers, applying OpenCore Legacy Patcher, and documenting upgrade risks.

macOSOpenCoreUSB InstallerLifecycle
DraftRemote Access

Date: TBD

Setting Up WinSCP Access to a Mac or Linux Host

A short note on using WinSCP and SFTP to transfer files securely between a Windows machine and a Mac or Linux host.

WinSCPSFTPSSHFile Transfer