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One year since my big bike accident

Sat, 30 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Background

As I come up on one year since the accident that broke my nose, I’ve been reflecting on what’s changed. I think it’s important to take stock sometimes — to give yourself a yardstick for what you’ve done well or not so well, even if I’m not always great at actually doing it. One saying that’s been stuck in my head lately: “life happens to you, or you happen to life.”

The Accident

I honestly haven’t been into biking that long. A former housemate got me into it — I’d always been vaguely interested but never bothered to invest in something quality, something that was actually a joy to ride. I’m deeply grateful to him for selling me his old bike and “bike-pilling” me, as he liked to say.

Building a Memory Machine for My Mom (and then my whole family)

Thu, 28 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

The Problem

There are things I want to know about my mom that I’ve never asked — not because I don’t care, but because the moment never quite arrives, or I assume there will be more time, or life moves fast enough that I forget until something reminds me again. I suspect most people have a version of this problem. The questions pile up quietly, and the people who could answer them get older, and at some point you realize the window is shorter than you thought.

So I built a small tool to fix it.

What It Does

Reich Memories sends questions to family members on a randomized schedule — a few per week, via email (hopefully Signal eventually as well) — and saves their replies to a private searchable archive.

Why I Built a Personal Website

Mon, 25 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Why This Site

I’m not a developer. I’m a business analyst — I spend my days mapping workflows, writing test scripts, sitting in rooms where eight stakeholders need to agree on what a button does. So when I set out to make a personal site, I wasn’t trying to make a statement about web design. I wanted the thing to work, and I wanted to be able to maintain it myself a year from now without re-learning a framework.

Brutalism, for me, is mostly a utility argument. Left-aligned text, system fonts, real links. If I want to add a page, I copy an existing one, change the words, and put it on the server. That’s the whole workflow.

It also matches how I think about my home infrastructure. I run my own stuff — calendar, tasks, media, a Loomio instance for a group I help organize — because I want to know where things live and how to get them back if something breaks. Own the data, prefer local over cloud, choose tools you can still run when the company behind them pivots or folds. A personal site should follow the same logic. One folder. Plain files. If the host disappears tomorrow, I move the folder somewhere else and I’m done.

About

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I’m a creative technologist — someone who builds things with both code and craft. My interests span hardware hacking, self-hosted infrastructure, media production, and the open web.

This site exists because I believe in owning my own platform. No algorithms, no engagement metrics, no corporate feed. Just a personal space on the internet that I control end-to-end.

I live in Minneapolis and spend my time across a few practices that all turn out to be the same practice: paying attention to systems, then nudging them.

Colophon

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This site runs on a Synology NAS in Minneapolis. No JavaScript. No trackers. No cookies. No cloud.

Built with Hugo. Served via nginx. Tunnel to the public internet via Cloudflare Tunnel. Deployed with rsync.

Source is plain Markdown files in a git repo. If the NAS dies, the folder moves somewhere else and nothing is lost.

Contact

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The best way to reach me:

Email: enteneller@tuta.io

Elsewhere

SoundCloud: enten_eller
Instagram: @uweuweuwe

No contact form. No newsletter signup. No tracking. Just an email address and some links.

Media

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A collection of images, video clips, and audio recordings. Self-hosted, no external platforms.

Images

Exposed Film ✕

Wildcat 2025 Stage Setup ✕

Me! ✕

Mabel! ✕

Wildcat 2025 Outdoor projection ✕

Wildcat 2025 Check In Tent ✕

New Years Eve 2026 Dress Up Room ✕

Wildcat 2026 Fundraiser ✕

Bachelor/ette Party Buffet Deco ✕

Bachelor/ette Party Dress Up and Photo Booth Room ✕

Bachelor/ette Table Spread ✕

Bachelor/ette Party Buffet Deco 2 ✕

Bachelor/ette Party Upstairs Chill Room ✕

Video

These are some excerpts of my VJ foray which is a nascent but growing interest

Projects

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A selection of things I’ve built, hacked together, or am currently working on. More details coming as I document each project.

Homelab Infrastructure

Stack: Synology DS218+, Docker, Tailscale, Cloudflare Tunnel, Plex Media Server (aka Ericflix™)

Self-hosted media stack with automated downloading, library management, and remote access. Runs Plex, Radarr, Sonarr, Prowlarr, qBittorrent, SABnzbd, and Tautulli — all behind a secure VPN tunnel.

Tags: linux docker networking automation plex media server ericflix