This post was last updated on 5/27/2026. Between the operating room, ICU responsibilities, education, research, content creation, app development, administrative work, and everything else life throws at me, I realized fairly early on that there are not enough hours in the day to simply “work harder” forever. During medical training,…
My homelab has gradually evolved into infrastructure I rely on every day. VPN access, dashboards, containers, AI workloads, monitoring, and remote services all quietly sit behind the scenes, powering my life. Unfortunately, when the Internet drops, the entire ecosystem feels broken. To add some redundancy, I just installed the UniFi…
I never thought I would be the person cross-shopping a Tesla Model S Plaid and a Porsche Taycan Turbo S, let alone owning both. Porsche people tend to scoff at the idea of driving a Tesla, while Tesla owners usually couldn’t care less. That dynamic alone says a lot about…
In August 2025, I transitioned my Eero-based networking hardware to Ubiquiti and have been extremely satisfied with the granular control I have over advanced networking features, metrics, and network performance. As part of this, I created VLANs to separate devices, firewall rules to define which devices can communicate with which…
Every few years, I tweak RK.MD’s design to refresh my content and to leverage the latest technologies at that time. My goals for 2026 are to address a few lingering headaches built up over the years: The goal was simple: make this as lean, consistent, and content-centered as possible by…
Over the last month, I’ve been slowly refining a workflow that lets me run a private large language model (LLM) on my NVIDIA DGX Spark. I wanted an inference model that lives entirely on my own hardware, never leaves my network, and feels responsive enough for writing, coding, and day-to-day…
Rather than using a separate plugin or paid service, I used macOS’s Automator application to create a folder action that converts popular image and video file types to AVIF and WebM, respectively. This way, regardless of the media format, I can drop it into a predetermined folder on my Mac…
It’s been a few years since I last did a “What’s in my work bag?” post, so here’s an update! Check out my prior posts from 2021, 2020, 2019, 2017, and 2016. Depending on what I’m doing on any given day (reading journal articles, programming at a coffee shop, creating…
One of the many tech advantages of having a Tesla is utilizing the vehicle’s external cameras to detect and record activity while driving and parked (“Sentry Mode”). This feature isn’t something for the Taycan, so I installed an aftermarket dash cam and went with the FITCAMX 4K Dash Cam. This…
While I’ve loved my Model S Plaid for its performance and futuristic tech, I’ve always wanted to add a true “driver’s car” to the stable. One with a more analog soul – something more planted, precise, and engaging that’s not just about sheer acceleration. For years, I’ve had my eye on Porsche…