About this Site

Daren’s Blog is an independent publication launched in June 2026 — a home for the projects, experiments, and technical rabbit holes that fill the space between work, life, and whatever obsession happens to take over next. It’s part lab notebook, part documentation, part creative outlet.

If you’re into building things, breaking things, fixing things, or understanding how they work, you’ll probably feel at home here.

What You’ll Find

• Music production — guitar and keyboard workflows, MIDI routing, mixing in Ableton Live, scoring in MuseScore, and pulling apart stems with UVR5.
• Computing across platforms — daily‑driving macOS and iOS, tuning Windows for development, and navigating the messy middle where everything overlaps
• Video — capturing with OBS, shaping the footage in DaVinci Resolve, and pushing polished videos to YouTube.
• Self‑hosting & infrastructure — Linux services, Docker stacks, Caddy reverse proxy setups, MySQL wrangling, Samba file sharing, and the ongoing quest for a clean, reliable homelab.
• Minecraft — server hosting, plugin development, and the occasional deep dive into game mechanics or tooling.

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