A personal reflection on Lost, its enduring mysteries, best and worst episodes, and why its characters matter more than the island.

Tailmox connects geographically separate Proxmox VE 8 hosts in a cluster over Tailscale, with practical notes from a year of use.

A tribute to Private First Class Billie Faust Hicks, who was killed in action in Italy during World War II at age 19.

A short surreal story about an empty bar, an old television, and a man confronting an uncanny loop in the static.

A loving memorial to Sugar, the sweetest little cat, and the small rituals that made her unforgettable.

A practical guide to building a private self-hosted cloud with Tailscale, Tipi, Docker, and Syncthing.

A directory of websites created and managed by willjasen, including school archives, family history, DNA, and technical projects.

A personal reflection on being gay, social resistance, identity, and the freedom to live authentically.

Links to the willjasen family tree website and its open-source code repository.

A surreal anti-anti-joke about a parched man, a broken vending machine, and the heat death of the universe.

Rainstash is an AWS CloudFormation template for deploying Resilio Sync securely, with encrypted storage and ephemeral infrastructure.

An approachable introduction to Shannon information entropy, with the equation, coin-flip examples, and practical interpretation.

An introduction to Brandon, the origin of the willjasen pseudonym, and the technology behind this personal website.