Plex stores audiobook progress at the track level, splits it by account in ways that don't survive a re-scan, and nobody had built a tool to move it to Audiobookshelf. So I wrote one, hit a couple of bad title-matching bugs along the way, and open sourced it.
Navidrome doesn't speak DLNA natively, and MusicCast doesn't speak OpenSubsonic. upmpdcli bridges that gap cleanly. It talks to Navidrome via the Subsonic API and advertises itself as a UPnP media server on your network.
Jellyfin handles music. It just doesn't handle it well. Here's the argument for splitting the stack and running Navidrome as a dedicated music server so Jellyfin never has to touch your music library at all.
Getting Backblaze Personal running on Unraid is pretty straight forward, and it's the cheapest way to get "unlimited" offsite backup for a homelab NAS. Just don't be a jerk about it, backup what you cant replace and call it good.
I turned three security cameras into an automatic bird identification system using BirdNet-Go. Now my wife and I can track every bird species that visits our yard in real-time.
I automated our Sunday night YouTube watching with Youtarr, because apparently managing a Google Sheet wasn't complicated enough. Now to see if I actually improved anything.
I built my own launcher for docker containers because Heimdall and Homepage didn't quite fit. Here's why rolling my own dashboard was worth it.
