System administration topics — Linux, OpenLiteSpeed, MySQL, monitoring.
Open VS Code on a large monorepo and three or four tabs in. Save a file. Save another. Watch the file save spinner stick around for half a second longer than it should. Open the integrated terminal and type git …
People build a homelab and immediately start with three drives, four NUCs, a 10GbE switch, Proxmox cluster — an installation that takes a weekend, costs $1,500, and breaks within a month because there’s too much to keep working. The home-server …
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 …
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 …
Apple wants you to buy a Time Capsule, an iCloud subscription, or at minimum a Thunderbolt-attached SSD. None of that helps if you already have a Linux box sitting on your network with a few terabytes of free space. Time …
journald has three different ways to cap disk usage. They overlap. They interact. The man page lists all of them with equal weight, which makes it tempting to set all three at once and assume the strictest one wins. That’s …
Last quarter I had a long-running bash daemon that needed to start as root (to bind a privileged port and read a key file in /etc) and then immediately drop to an unprivileged user before doing anything else. The …
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 …