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 …
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 …
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 …
You’ve spent enough years watching iCloud quietly rewrite your contact data, randomly de-syncing one device, “merging” the same family member into three different cards. The fix is leaving iCloud and running your own CalDAV/CardDAV server. Apple’s Calendar and Contacts apps …
Modernizing the PHP runtime on a multi-tenant LSWS box is rarely an “all sites at once” affair. Some sites are on a custom theme that uses PHP 4-style class constructors. Some have a plugin still calling create_function(), removed in …
You decided to leave Google Photos. Either iCloud’s $2.99 plan ran out of space, the AI-summary features finally crossed your threshold, or you just got tired of paying rent on your own family photos. The two self-hosted answers worth seriously …