Dmitry's Notes

2026-07-22

Migrated the homelab monitoring to a smaller VM. Grafana dashboards are finally loading fast again. Next up: figuring out why the backup cron keeps skipping Sundays.

2026-07-08

Reading notes: The Design of Everyday Things. The chapter on affordances explains so much about bad UI in router admin panels.

2026-06-19

Swapped the old spinning disks for SSDs. rsync throughput went from 40MB/s to 210MB/s. Should have done this a year ago.