For about three years I ran monit on every server I owned. It watched processes, restarted them, and emailed me when something fell over. Then I hit a problem monit doesn’t really solve: how do I know when a cron …
Every “best backup tool” comparison on the internet eventually devolves into a feature-matrix between Borg, Restic, and Kopia, and concludes with “they’re all good, pick one.” That’s true, technically, but it doesn’t help when you’re staring at a 200 GB …
You installed a beta of some app. It’s slow, the UI’s weird, and Activity Monitor shows it making outbound network calls every two seconds — telemetry probably, or analytics, or who-knows-what. You’d uninstall it but you actually need the app …
RSS isn’t dead — it’s the part of the open web that the algorithm-driven feeds couldn’t kill. The trade is that you have to host the reader yourself if you want the experience to be good. Two reasonable self-hosted options …