cory j. quirk

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Hello!

I offer home and small business IT help for Cook County, MN.

I provide services in:

I also have professional experience in sound engineering and photography.

For coding projects, see my GitHub page. I have experience building web apps and APIs, writing custom Python scripts for internal tooling, and working with SQL databases.

If you'd like to work together, whether for a quick repair or a larger project, send me an email!

Creative DIY projects and opportunities to help people are what especially excite me.

Looking forward to hearing from you.


recent gadgets

Linux home server

Nov 2025

Repurposed aged-out enterprise Dell towers for NAS storage and media streaming using Ubuntu Server.

Ribbon cable repacement

Oct 2025

I disassembled a Dell Latitude laptop with a nonfunctional screen, identifying a damaged ribbon cable, unmounting and remounting the LCD display. This is the trickiest computer repair I've completed to date.

eReader revival

March 2025

I simply installed a new battery in a Kindle 2 I got in 2010 which sat dead for a decade. It's a great way to read without unnecessary distractions.

gaming PC custom build

Jan 2020

Not recent, but the same machine is still singing in 2026.