McGarrah Technical Blog

ZFS Boot Mirrors on Proxmox 8 for the Homelab - Part 1

· 9 min read
ZFS boot mirrors saved my homelab cluster more than once. Here's the complete procedure for replacing a failed drive in a Proxmox ZFS boot mirror — including the mistakes I made so you don't have to.

DISM RestoreHealth Stuck at 62.3% on Windows 11? Here's What's Actually Happening

· 3 min read
If you are running Windows 11 and attempting to repair your system using the DISM /RestoreHealth command, you might have noticed the progress bar getting stuck at 62.3%. Here is what is actually happening and how to monitor it.

Caddy Reverse Proxy for Local Multi-Site Jekyll Development

· 8 min read
My blog serves from the webroot and my resume lives at /resume/ — both Jekyll sites on the same domain in production. Replicating that URL structure locally without a heavy web server required a lightweight reverse proxy and some Jekyll livereload lore.

Writing to Think: Two Decades of Figuring Things Out in Public

· 10 min read
I don't write to share what I know. I write to figure out what I know. After 178 posts across 20+ years, I'm finally honest about why I do this — and why I'm moving to Substack to find the conversation I've been looking for.

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