Infrastructure, deployments, automation.
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 …
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 …
You have one personal VPS at a budget host, a NAS at home, and maybe a Raspberry Pi running Pi-hole. You want to reach all three from your laptop without exposing SSH on the public internet, without messing with port …
Google still has the best results for some queries. DuckDuckGo is fine for most of them. Kagi is excellent if you want to pay $10/month. But there’s a fourth option that gets oddly little airtime: SearXNG — a self-hosted metasearch …
You’ve installed a content blocker on every browser. The phone in your pocket has a half-dozen apps that show ads anyway. The smart TV in the living room shows ads on the home screen with no user-facing way to turn …
The first time you write a backup script, it’s six lines: restic backup /home. The first time it silently stops running, you discover that the only signal something’s wrong is “I went to restore something and the most recent …
The 3-2-1 backup rule is older than this whole industry: 3 copies of the data, on 2 different media types, with 1 of them offsite. It’s the conservative answer for a reason — ransomware can take out one local …
Pinboard is the bookmark service hardcore link-collectors swore by for over a decade. The thing was: it was always one person (Maciej Cegłowski), aging gracefully but increasingly out of touch with modern web platforms. Pinboard’s iOS extensions broke after iOS …
You have a backup script. You add it to /etc/crontab. It runs on schedule for a year. Then one day it stops, because the box was suspended for ten minutes during the run window and cron’s “minute X of …
Docker eats disk. Not “uses a lot of disk” — eats. A few months of building images, running containers, mounting volumes, and pulling base layers, and /var/lib/docker is sitting at 80 GB on what was supposed to be a 100 …