# Miscellaneous This is an island of misfit toys, a bucket for everything else I get the itch to post that hasn't earned its own category yet: home infrastructure, decisions about the services I use, tinkering, and meta topics including management and purpose of this site. There's no intended reading order here; the posts are listed descending, newest first. ## Posts _More will land here as the writing itch strikes._ - **[[Quinine Quaffs|🍸 Quinine Quaffs]]** - October 2026 - A story about Malaria, adult beverages, and how humans haven't changed. A PowerPoint night with friends deck hosted here for convenience, and because it's just fun. - **[[Sidebar Social Icons on Obsidian Publish | 🐦 Sidebar Social Icons on Obsidian Publish]]** - October 2026 - Obsidian Publish has no native social-icons feature, so a `publish.js` script now injects a row of inline-SVG icon links under the site logo on every page. Written up so other Publish users can take it and run with it. - **[[New Home, New Homelab | 🖥️ New Home, New Homelab]]** - Sept. 2024, updated Oct. 2026 - What better way to celebrate buying a house than putting holes in the walls? Summarizes our home network stack before, to Lack Rack or not to Lack Rack, building out the homelab, and updated to reflect the current state of the setup. - **[[Goodbye GMail, hello Zoho | 📧 Goodbye GMail, Hello Zoho]]** - November 2023 - A post on moving my personal email from free Gmail to paid Zoho, a jump made when phishing risk to the former grew to an unacceptable level. Talks through the rationale, candidate services, why $1/month Zoho won, and a resource list for making your own switch. - **[[Car, er, Kitchen Thing | 🎵 Car, er, Kitchen Thing?]]** - August 2022 - A mini-post about buying a Spotify Car Thing on a lark and mounting it under the kitchen cabinets as a Spotify remote, because the car didn't need it and the kitchen did. - **[[My (Old) New Site | 🌐 My New (Old) Site]]** - March 2022 - Why I wanted a personal site in the first place, where the BeerMetalPC name came from, and building the original Jekyll-on-GitHub-Pages iteration on an M1 Mac. This still carries several update notes including that the Jekyll site has since been decommissioned in favor of what you're reading now.