srand.info is my personal knowledge base: a collection of projects, technical notes, lessons learned, experiments, and occasional detours. My career and interests have crossed software, infrastructure, photography, automotive work, and independent media.
The categories will evolve, but the purpose is simple: document what I build, preserve what I learn, and share anything that might be useful or interesting to someone else.
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Archive note, October 2025: This post is based on BDC.aztexsystems image-tool notes and later Markit image-pipeline decisions. The BDC image tool started as a practical helper. Email campaigns needed images in predictable sizes. Vehicle photos, logos, footers, banners, and promotional graphics all had to fit templates. Manually resizing and converting assets over and over was … Read more
Archive note, October 2, 2025: This post is based on the September 27, 2025 Docker networking troubleshooting notes. One of the earliest SoCalNomad automation failures looked like an AI problem. It was not. The workflow was supposed to let n8n call a local LLM service running in another Docker container. The model was up. n8n … Read more
Archive note, September 29, 2025: This post follows the September 2025 SoCalNomad workflow-design notes. The first serious SoCalNomad automation problem was not writing articles. It was deciding what did not deserve to become one. The early ambition was obvious enough: collect Southern California entertainment stories from many sources, filter them, synthesize useful coverage, and publish … Read more
Archive note, September 27, 2025: This post is based on early SoCalNomad project documentation from September and October 2025. SoCalNomad started with a modest public premise: Southern California entertainment, events, photography, and local culture. The engineering premise was less modest. I was not trying to stand up a brochure site. I was trying to build … Read more
Archive note, September 2025: This post is based on SweedestMoments infrastructure notes for photography storage and workflow planning. Photography infrastructure has a different center of gravity than a normal website. The website matters. The portfolio matters. Client galleries matter. But the irreplaceable asset is the photo archive: RAW files, edited masters, exports, catalogs, and the … Read more
Archive note, January 30, 2025: This post is based on the recovery work used to retrieve articles from the defunct InlandEmpire.com archive. There is a strange kind of loss that happens when a site disappears. The work is still real. The bylines were real. The shows happened. The photos, deadlines, venue notes, and late-night drafts … Read more