Author

H.W. Crestwood

Senior Editor

Blog editor and full-stack specialist with over 15 years of experience in software development and systems administration. Driven by a strong interest in homelab and self-hosted infrastructure, he approaches technology from a practical, experiment-driven perspective.

A bright editorial home interior showing a Wi-Fi router on an open shelf with signal waves interacting with walls, a mirror, and nearby objects.

Sep 13, 2026H.W. Crestwood

Router Placement 101: The Physics of Obstacles, Mirrors, and Antenna Orientation

An early-2000s enthusiast PC setup with a red graphics card and performance-themed display, evoking the Radeon 9700 Pro era.

Sep 12, 2026H.W. Crestwood

ATI Radeon 9700 Pro: The Card That Shocked Nvidia

A bright editorial homelab scene with compact servers and a polished monitoring dashboard display.

Sep 11, 2026H.W. Crestwood

Monitoring Homelab Health: Setting Up Prometheus, Grafana, and Node Exporter

A bright editorial virtualization scene showing a firewall VM on a host with a clearly separated WAN path and structured LAN path.

Sep 10, 2026H.W. Crestwood

Running pfSense or OPNsense as a Proxmox VM: Best Practices and WAN Passthrough

A cozy mid-2000s PC movie setup with a film scene and clear subtitle lines on the monitor.

Sep 9, 2026H.W. Crestwood

Why BS.Player Was the King of Movie Subtitles in the 2000s

A bright editorial home-network scene showing an ISP gateway and a second router creating two layered NAT boundaries.

Sep 8, 2026H.W. Crestwood

Double NAT Explained: Why It Happens and How to Fix It Without Losing Your Mind

A beige CRT PC on an early-1990s desk showing a Program Manager-style interface with grouped utility windows.

Sep 7, 2026H.W. Crestwood

The Charm of Windows 3.11: Computing Before the Start Button

A bright editorial desk scene showing a PC safely split between Windows 11 and Ubuntu in a balanced dual-boot setup.

Sep 6, 2026H.W. Crestwood

How to Safely Dual-Boot Windows 11 and Ubuntu

A nostalgic CRT computer displaying playful toaster-like shapes and colorful pipe-like forms in a dreamy screensaver scene.

Sep 5, 2026H.W. Crestwood

The Lost Art of Screensavers: From Flying Toasters to 3D Pipes

A bright editorial Mac workspace showing Finder-style file organization with folders, tags, and clean arrangement.

Sep 4, 2026H.W. Crestwood

Understanding Finder: How to Organize Files and Folders on Mac