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It’s been about a year now since I went really deep on my home server setup, replacing a lot of what I used ot pay for with open source, self-hosted, systems which sit right next to me in the office. So I thought I would take a moment to talk through some of the software, and the hardware — what worked well and what didn’t.

Software

Generally speaking,...

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This week: new gear!

Quick note: no *Gear Report* next week as I enjoy the holiday.

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This week: my weekend packing loadout with three backpacks.

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This was an interesting year for gear in a lot of ways — so I thought I would wrap up the year commenting on different gear categories and how they felt over 2025. In some ways there’s a lot of good out there, but in far too many other ways, it was disappointing.

I’ll go category by category.

Bags

I get the general sense that bags stagnated this...

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This week: some travel items that I bring with me now.

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