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 …
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 …