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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The first photography-server experiment answered a storage question: could I turn three USB drives, Proxmox, and TrueNAS into a useful working archive? The next question was less technical. Which parts of a photography business actually belonged on that machine? It was tempting to keep adding services because the hardware was already running. Client galleries, booking, … Read more
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 all existed. But if the site goes dark and the database is gone, the public record starts to dissolve. That is what … Read more