Pinboard is the bookmark service hardcore link-collectors swore by for over a decade. The thing was: it was always one person (Maciej Cegłowski), aging gracefully but increasingly out of touch with modern web platforms. Pinboard’s iOS extensions broke after iOS …
I had a single mysqldump file go partially-corrupted on S3 last year — exactly one byte flipped somewhere in the middle of a 1.2 GB nightly backup. The kind of thing that should never happen, but did, probably during transit …
I run three personal servers — one Oracle ARM box (the Internet-facing one), a NAS at home, and a tiny N100 mini-PC at a friend’s place that I use as off-site backup. They need to reach each other privately. Tailscale …
Pocket announced its shutdown in 2025. Instapaper still exists but is third-handed and feels frozen. Reader-by-Readwise is good but it’s a $10/month subscription. The self-hosted answer is Wallabag — PHP+MySQL, runs on a $5 VPS, has clean iOS / Android …
The first time I filled / on a single-drive ZFS box was a Sunday at 2 AM. zfs list said the pool had 800 GB free; df said / was at 100%; the system was unhappy in that quiet, refuses-to-write-but-doesn’t-crash …
You want to share a thing on your home server with someone outside your house. Maybe you wrote a small status page, or you want a friend to grab a file, or you’re showing a client a Caddy-served Astro preview. …
Most Linux distros now ship nftables as the default firewall backend, with iptables kept around as a compatibility wrapper (iptables-nft). On Ubuntu 22 you’re already running nftables under the hood whether you know it or not — the …
I’ve been running fail2ban on this Oracle box since the day I provisioned it. Six months ago I added CrowdSec because I wanted the community blocklist for SSH brute-force IPs. For three months they coexisted and I assumed it was …
Your VPS is down. You don’t know it yet because nobody’s pinged you. The customer who emailed at 3 AM gets the “our server is unavailable” auto-responder, but it’s actually a real outage. By the time you wake up and …
OpenLiteSpeed already does TLS. Certbot already works against it. So why on earth would you run Caddy in front of LSWS as a sidecar — adding a hop, another process to monitor, and a second config file to keep in …