Backing up an iPhone to a non-iCloud destination: libimobiledevice + idevicebackup2 from a Linux box

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iCloud backup “just works” until it doesn’t — until your iCloud quota fills, or you decide that storing the unencrypted contents of your iPhone at Apple is a posture you don’t love, or your Mac dies and you want a …

A maintainable dotfiles repo: stow vs chezmoi vs a custom bash bootstrap — pros and cons after a year on each

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Every developer eventually accepts that their dotfiles are a real piece of personal infrastructure. The shell config, the editor config, the git config, the tmux conf, the ssh config — these accumulate years of small decisions, and re-configuring them on …

Setting up a personal newsletter service with Listmonk: docker-compose + an email-sending VPS

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You write. People want to subscribe. Substack used to be the obvious answer until they started taking 10% plus payment processing, plus the platform-risk of the next political controversy. Buttondown is a nicer option for $9-29/mo. ConvertKit and MailerLite both …