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Homelab: 1 25 Year old computer as a firewall: 60Mbps throughput
A test of whether a 25-year-old computer can still serve as a practical pfSense firewall at home, and what performance it can deliver.
Homelab: 3 Turning laptops into mini-servers
An argument for turning old laptops into mini-servers instead of e-waste, with practical homelab examples.
Amiga Next-Gen Build: 1 Sam440ep
An Amiga Next-Gen Build centered on the Sam440ep and the strange persistence of modern PowerPC Amiga hardware.
Pedal Progression: 2 Suhr Riot
Pedal Progression continues with a Suhr Riot rebuild: rough old work, missing parts, and a plan to turn it into something better.
Guitar Pedals
A series for standalone guitar-pedal projects that sit outside the Pedal Progression chain.
Guitar Pedals: 1 Splitter pedal: Two guitar amps at once
13 March 2025
Splitting the output of your guitar/pedalboard to two separate Guitar Amps is one of the most powerful way in shaping your tone and 'broaden' the sound, but to do so you need some tricks. In this post I build a tiny active…
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Guitar Pedals: 2 Splitter/Buffer
27 February 2026
A great little utility box that on its own can have a massive influence on sound, since it allows me playing through two separate guitar heads at the same time! I also challenged myself building it into the absolute smallest package possible,…
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Guitar Pedals: 3 Fixing a Temu digital delay
22 April 2026
A Temu guitar pedal… Well 5 euro (or usd) is not a lot for a pedal that is for sure, so I tried this out, yet arrived broken. So got a refund but lets try and fix it anyway I thought. Interesting…
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