Your app writes to /var/log/app.log. The disk fills up. You write a quick logrotate config, copy-paste from the first Stack Overflow result, set up a daily rotate. Two months later the disk is fine but you discover the app …
You manage five servers. Each has a different SSH key in ~/.ssh/authorized_keys from the day you set it up — one’s an old id_rsa from 2018, two have your laptop’s current ed25519 key, one has an ancient ECDSA key from …
Apple Mail and Gmail used to be a fight: Gmail’s labels confused Apple Mail’s folder model, IMAP sync would crawl through 80,000 messages, and a half-moon “loading” indicator would spin for hours while you couldn’t search. As recently as 2023 …
You SSH into your server and run the same five commands every Sunday morning: df -h, free -h, systemctl --failed, apt list --upgradable, lastb. Five minutes of looking around to confirm nothing’s quietly broken. Multiply …
Pocket announced its shutdown in 2025. Instapaper still exists but is third-handed and feels frozen. Reader-by-Readwise is good but it’s a $10/month subscription. The self-hosted answer is Wallabag — PHP+MySQL, runs on a $5 VPS, has clean iOS / Android …