You write a Python script that needs to run every fifteen minutes on your Mac. You add a line to crontab -e, save, walk away. Two days later you check and notice it never ran. The cron file is …
Last week I cleaned a six-site WordPress compromise on one of my OpenLiteSpeed boxes. The most interesting payload was the “DOLLY” mu-plugin family — a credential-harvesting backdoor that hides itself with a few clever tricks and survives most casual cleanups …
Most production bash scripts I’ve inherited start with a comment block, then dive straight into echos and mkdirs and cps. They look fine. They run fine, most of the time. They fail mysteriously the one time it …
You’ve cleaned the malware files, deleted the backdoor admin accounts, rotated everyone’s password. The site is fine, you’re fine. Three weeks later someone logs in with a session cookie they grabbed during the compromise window and creates a fresh admin …
Your ~/Desktop has 437 files in it. Most of them are screenshots called Screenshot 2025-09-04 at 3.42.18 PM.png. You haven’t deleted them because some are useful (a tracking number, a UI bug, a recipe) but most aren’t, and you …
You’ve bought into one smart-home ecosystem — Hue lights, or SmartThings hub, or Apple HomeKit — and now every new device you consider has to be compatible with that brand. Three years in, you’ve also accumulated a Wyze camera, a …
For about three years I ran monit on every server I owned. It watched processes, restarted them, and emailed me when something fell over. Then I hit a problem monit doesn’t really solve: how do I know when a cron …
Every “best backup tool” comparison on the internet eventually devolves into a feature-matrix between Borg, Restic, and Kopia, and concludes with “they’re all good, pick one.” That’s true, technically, but it doesn’t help when you’re staring at a 200 GB …
You installed a beta of some app. It’s slow, the UI’s weird, and Activity Monitor shows it making outbound network calls every two seconds — telemetry probably, or analytics, or who-knows-what. You’d uninstall it but you actually need the app …
RSS isn’t dead — it’s the part of the open web that the algorithm-driven feeds couldn’t kill. The trade is that you have to host the reader yourself if you want the experience to be good. Two reasonable self-hosted options …