https://bradfrank.me/blog.html Bradley Frank — platform engineer, cloud security engineer, and career systems administrator in Boston. en-us Wed, 09 Sep 2026 12:00:00 +0000 https://bradfrank.me/blog/six-years-of-dotfiles.html https://bradfrank.me/blog/six-years-of-dotfiles.html Wed, 09 Sep 2026 12:00:00 +0000 What 1,048 commits across six years taught me about managing my own configuration — and why the quiet years matter more than the busy ones. https://bradfrank.me/blog/the-fault-follows-the-port.html https://bradfrank.me/blog/the-fault-follows-the-port.html Wed, 09 Sep 2026 12:00:00 +0000 Three years of running ZFS at home, and the recurring lesson: the filesystem kept telling the truth about my hardware long before I was willing to hear it. https://bradfrank.me/blog/the-log-is-the-system.html https://bradfrank.me/blog/the-log-is-the-system.html Wed, 09 Sep 2026 12:00:00 +0000 Running one server for a whole household. The hardware is the easy part — what keeps it alive is a written record, and a willingness to correct it. https://bradfrank.me/blog/thirty-seconds-of-nothing.html https://bradfrank.me/blog/thirty-seconds-of-nothing.html Wed, 09 Sep 2026 12:00:00 +0000 My laptop kept freezing for half a minute at a time. I blamed the backup job for weeks. It was btrfs committing a transaction, and the fix was in GNOME Software.