Data Storage
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#5203: Why LTO Tape Still Backs Up the Cloud
Magnetic tape isn't dead — it's holding up the cloud. How LTO-10 broke a 25-year compatibility promise, and why AI needs tape more than ever.
#5166: Why Your Baby Tracker Can't Log Oxygen Saturation
Baby apps have templates for everything — except the metrics you actually need. The custom tracking framework exists. It just never shipped.
#5132: Why Japan Still Hoards Optical Media
Japan builds bullet trains but still buys Blu-rays. The surprising logic behind the world's most advanced tech holdout.
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#5117: How AI Training Data Gets Filtered (and Exploited)
Six stages of content filtering stand between raw web crawls and your AI model — here's where poisoning attacks slip through.
#5000: Can You Trust Google Photos With Your Life's Work?
Why your Google Photos library isn't really backed up — and what actually works instead.
#4826: Schema Design Is an Art Form
Why AI-generated schemas skip the thinking that makes databases survive contact with reality.
#4793: Fibre Isn't a Trick — It's the Thing the Trick Was Trying to Approximate
The glass in the ground is already 40 years old — and it's barely breaking a sweat.
#4739: NFS Unmasked: Versions, Gotchas, and Hard Truths
NFS isn't one protocol—it's a succession of them. Here's what's really happening under the hood and where it breaks.
#4704: Building a Unified AI Filesystem with Rclone and MinIO
How to build a single virtual filesystem for AI agents across multiple cloud storage providers — without the token headaches.
#4689: Bootable Standby Drives: The Ship of Theseus Server Solution
Recovering from a dead NVMe drive in minutes, not days. A practical guide to building a bootable standby disk with rsync.
#4671: Building a Miniature Cloud: Proxmox, MinIO, and the Seams
Proxmox alone isn't a private cloud. What does it actually take to build one?
#4603: The Hidden ID System Behind Every Flight
PNRs, e-ticket numbers, and the name match that decides if you fly. Here's how airline booking records actually work.
#4476: Python Visualization vs. Subscription Tools
Thirty free Python libraries that rival paid tools like Tableau and ArcGIS. When is the subscription worth it?
#4475: Where GeoJSON Breaks and KMZ Still Wins
Why your browser freezes on a 1.5GB GeoJSON and when KMZ is actually the better choice.
#4461: Inside a GLB File: Binary Format, Textures, and PBR
What's actually inside a GLB file? We hex dump one and walk through every byte — JSON chunks, binary buffers, textures, and PBR materials.
#4452: YouTube Backup Pipeline: RSS + yt-dlp + Wasabi
Build a free, reliable pipeline to auto-download and backup YouTube videos using RSS feeds, yt-dlp, and cloud storage.
#4399: How a Bank Card Nearly Killed 5,000 Episodes
A textbook backup setup quietly degraded to a single copy. Here’s how—and how to prevent it.
#4391: Why Your AI Chat History Has No Real Backup
Your ChatGPT conversations are your external brain—and you can lose them with a single expired credit card.
#4379: One Filesystem to Rule Them All
Merge Google Drive, S3, and NAS into one browsable tree on your phone.
#4289: Spreadsheets vs. SQL: Is the Grid Dying?
Airtable's AI agent just collapsed the usability gap. Does the spreadsheet still have a purpose?
#4188: Find the Quietest Time to Drive Using Google's API
Query Google's Routes API to find statistically optimal driving times in Jerusalem — no gut feelings required.
#4178: DIY ISP Quality Dashboard Tools
Measure your real internet performance with self-hosted tools. No ISP speed tests, no guesswork.
#4152: How Your SSN Became the Master Key to Everything
When a data breach and a mail scam combine to hijack your Social Security benefits — and what to do about it.
#4150: Computing's Hidden Price Surge: DRAM, NAND & GPUs
Why your next PC build costs 32% more than two years ago — and why no one tracks it.