If a WordPress site of yours has been compromised — even briefly, even silently — there’s a very good chance it now has at least one administrator account that you didn’t create. Most WP malware families plant one as part …
Every WordPress site running with default config is being hammered right now by brute-force scripts hitting xmlrpc.php and wp-login.php. If you run multiple sites on a single OpenLiteSpeed (LSWS) box, dropping a per-site .htaccess rule on each one is …
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 …
Last spring I was cleaning out an old VPS and found three crontab entries pointing at scripts that didn’t exist anymore. Two had been deleted during a refactor in 2022; one was a project I’d rm -rf‘d a year …
You wrote a small Python script that does something useful — pulls down currency rates, scrapes a forecast, syncs a folder, posts a daily reminder. You want it to run every 15 minutes on your Mac. You read the previous …
You paste a Bash one-liner into Apple Notes for safekeeping. An hour later you copy it back, paste into Terminal, hit Enter, and bash blows up: command not found: 'curl'. The reason: Apple Notes silently turned your straight quotes …
For internet-facing domains, Let’s Encrypt is the right answer. But the moment you have a homelab service running on a .local domain, on a private subnet, or behind Tailscale — Let’s Encrypt either doesn’t work (HTTP-01 needs public reachability) or …
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 webcam in your MacBook is fine for hopping on a quick call. The webcam in your iPhone — even an iPhone 12, let alone a recent Pro — is dramatically better. More megapixels, larger sensor, better stabilization, way better …