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Title card reading Proxmox iGPU Passthrough, sharing one Intel iGPU with an unprivileged LXC so Plex can hardware transcode.
Homelab
Proxmox iGPU Passthrough to an Unprivileged LXC for Plex
No VT-d on this box, so the iGPU gets shared rather than passed through. The two config lines that work, and the…
September 2026
Title card reading Application Passwords gone from your profile, with a note that WordPress hides the panel for three reasons.
AI
WordPress Hid the Application Passwords Box. Three Checks Found Why.
The Application Passwords panel vanished from my profile. WordPress hides it for exactly three reasons, and one unauthenticated request tells you which…
September 2026
Title card for an article about Site Kit returning missing_required_scopes to WordPress application password requests
AI
Site Kit Said I Was Missing Scopes. I Had Every Scope.
Site Kit returned a 403 for permissions I had granted twice. The scopes were fine. WordPress just had not worked out who…
September 2026
Title card reading Slot Labels Lie, 300 GPUs in Millimetres
3D Printing
Vendor Slot Labels Lie. Here Are 300 GPUs in Millimetres.
A sortable table of length, height and thickness for 300 desktop graphics cards that run on a single 8-pin connector or less,…
August 2026
Title card: Stock dilution red flags - seven red flags and the EDGAR check screeners cannot run
Investing
Not All Dilution Kills a Stock. I Built a Test for the Kind That Does.
Seven dilution red flags that disqualify a stock, five conditions that make a raise acceptable, why a buyback authorization means nothing until…
August 2026
Title card: The free ride exit strategy - sell 50% at +100%, 25% at +200%, let the rest run
Investing
My Thesis Broke and the Trade Still Made 38%. That Was the Plan.
The free-ride exit method: sell 50% at +100% to recover your full principal, sell 25% at +200%, let the rest run. A…
August 2026
Title card: Five signals, eight dealbreakers - the quantitative small-cap trading framework by Marcos Ponce
Investing
Five Signals, Eight Dealbreakers: How I Trade Small-Cap Tech
The complete quantitative framework behind my small-cap tech trading: five evidence-backed signals (Jegadeesh-Titman momentum, insider buying clusters, estimate revisions), eight structural dealbreakers…
August 2026
Title card for a guide to building a Proxmox backup strategy
Homelab
A Proxmox Backup Strategy, Written by Someone Who Did Not Have One
A Proxmox backup strategy from someone who ran five services with none: why a ZFS snapshot is not a backup, why a…
August 2026
Title card for a guide comparing Proxmox LXC containers and virtual machines
Homelab
Proxmox LXC vs VM: I Spent Three Months on the Wrong One
Proxmox LXC vs VM: a decision table for when each is right, why containers cost a fraction of the RAM and boot…
August 2026
Title card for a guide to unprivileged LXC permissions and UID mapping
Homelab
Unprivileged LXC Permissions: Why Your Container Cannot Read Your Files
Unprivileged LXC permissions on Proxmox explained: containers shift every user and group ID by 100000, so a service running as UID 999…
August 2026
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