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Moving a small server from bookworm to trixie. The upgrade itself was uneventful. Preparing for it and checking afterwards took most of the time.

I started with a complicated folder hierarchy and a dozen plugins. A year later the vault is simpler, and I find things faster. Here’s what survived.

I designed and ordered my first PCB, a small USB-C powered sensor board. It worked on the first spin, mostly. These are the mistakes I’d like to not repeat.

Encrypted, deduplicated nightly backups with restic, a systemd timer, and a retention policy. About 20 lines of config, and I actually tested the restore.

nvm, pyenv, goenv, a manually downloaded terraform, and a shell script for direnv. I replaced all of it with mise and one small config file per project.

After years of bash and a growing pile of zsh plugins, I switched my interactive shell to fish. Here’s what I kept, what I changed, and the few things that still trip me up.