
Running a home media server is great — until something goes sideways and you have no idea. A disk throws a warning at 2am, someone’s sharing their Plex password with half their office, or a download fails silently and nobody gets their movie. You find out days later, if at all. The fix? Wire everything…

I’ve been meaning to contribute to open source for a while. Not just in a vague “I should do that someday” way — but actually doing it. Finding a bug, fixing it, opening a PR, and shipping something real. Today I finally did it. Five times. Here’s what I worked on, what I fixed, and…