McGarrah Technical Blog

ZFS Boot Mirrors on Proxmox 8 for the Homelab - Part 4

· 14 min read
Part 3 laid out the plan for migrating to smaller SSDs. Here's what happened running it against a real node with both mirror drives failing at once — a UEFI dead end (the third one), four gaps the plan never anticipated, a mistake I made and had to recover from live, and a real hardware failure that surfaced while fixing the last gap.

Jellyfin Media Integrity Scanner: Architecture & Design Decisions

· 8 min read
Plugin or script? How aggressive should scanning be? Where do results live? This article covers the key architecture decisions behind the Jellyfin Media Integrity Scanner — from two-phase scanning strategy to production-safe I/O throttling.

Jellyfin Media Integrity Scanner: Why Your Media Library Needs a Health Check

· 6 min read
Media files rot silently. Bit-flip corruption, incomplete transfers, and storage failures leave your Jellyfin library with files that look fine in the UI but fail during playback. This is the first in a series on building a production-safe media integrity scanner for Jellyfin.

Testing a Machine-Readable Resume Against ATS Systems and AI Agents

· 9 min read
I built a machine-readable resume view with JSON-LD and semantic HTML. Now I need to verify it actually works — against Google's validators, ATS resume parsers, and AI agents that recruiters are starting to use.

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