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 classic Nintendo 64 controller with focus on its central analog stick beside a CRT showing a colorful low-polygon 3D game world.

Aug 10, 2026H.W. Crestwood

Nintendo 64’s Analog Stick: How It Taught Us to Move in 3D

The back of a beige 1990s PC showing chunky serial and parallel connectors with thick cables attached.

Aug 10, 2026H.W. Crestwood

Parallel & Serial Ports: Chunky Connectors That Powered the 90s

A woodgrain-style home console with joysticks and cartridges in a warm late-1970s living room beside a glowing CRT television.

Aug 9, 2026H.W. Crestwood

Atari 2600: The Machine That Built the Home Console Industry

A creative editorial comparison between unprivileged and privileged LXC containers, showing stronger and weaker trust boundaries.

Aug 9, 2026H.W. Crestwood

Unprivileged vs Privileged LXC Containers: The Real Security Trade-Off

A late-1990s computer desk with a dial-up modem, telephone cable, and CRT monitor glowing as the system prepares to connect to the internet.

Aug 9, 2026H.W. Crestwood

Dial-Up Modems: The Nostalgic Symphony of Connecting to the Web

A late-1990s engineering workstation with a large trackball beside a keyboard and a monitor showing a generic wireframe model.

Aug 8, 2026H.W. Crestwood

Why Trackball Mice Were the Choice of CAD Professionals

A crowded 2000s LAN party with CRT monitors, PC towers, Ethernet cables, and gamers sharing the same room.

Aug 8, 2026H.W. Crestwood

How LAN Parties in the 2000s Built a Culture Online Gaming Couldn’t

A stack of gaming magazines and a reflective demo CD on a late-1990s PC desk beside a CRT monitor.

Aug 8, 2026H.W. Crestwood

The Era of Game Demo CDs Attached to Tech Magazines

A dark editorial homelab scene showing three compact servers linked in a disciplined cluster topology.

Aug 8, 2026H.W. Crestwood

Building a 3-Node Proxmox Cluster: Quorum, Corosync, and Network Requirements

A bright editorial illustration showing Docker container log streams being rotated and contained before they can overwhelm host storage.

Aug 8, 2026H.W. Crestwood

Managing Container Logs: Preventing Docker from Filling Up Host Disks