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AWS in 2025: Stuff you think you know that's now wrong
One of the neat things about AWS is that it's almost twenty years old. One of the unfortunate things about AWS is... that it's almost twenty years old
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Modern CI is too complex and misdirected (2021)
The state of CI platforms is much stronger than it was just a few years ago. Overall, this is a good thing: access to powerful CI platforms enables software developers and companies to ship more reliable software more frequently, which benefits its users/customers. Centralized CI platforms like GitHub Actions, GitLab…
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XZ Utils Backdoor Still Lurking in Docker Images
In this blog, we share a new finding in the XZ Utils saga: several Docker images built around the time of the compromise contain the backdoor. At first…
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SystemD Service Hardening
Discover additional security options for systemd units, to include quadlets. These options are everything from system permissions, time manage, BPF, syscall & seccomp filters, etc., all to make your system more secure.
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Eliminating JavaScript cold starts on AWS Lambda
Porffor can run on Lambda now!
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iPhone DevOps (2023)
I wrote earlier about my dream of developing “single-handedly” on an iPhone. Then, I wrote some more about it . The dream still lives strongly! I am now coding single-handedly in any language on my iPhone SE model 2022. But although i still like pythonista I am now using a combination of three great apps that allow me…
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Nginx introduces native support for ACME protocol
Discover how native ACME protocol support simplifies SSL/TLS certificate management by enabling direct configuration within NGINX.
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OpenFreeMap survived 100k requests per second
I was about to post about how nice the last 10 months of OpenFreeMap have been. The architecture has really proven itself to be great, Cloudflare has agreed to sponsor the bandwidth, Hetzner servers are super stable as always, serving tiles
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AWS Restored My Account: The Human Who Made the Difference
The untold story of how one AWS employee turned a 20-day nightmare into a lesson in corporate accountability. Sometimes all it takes is one person who actually gives a damn.
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Zero-day flaws in authentication, identity, authorization in HashiCorp Vault
Check Point's AI Security Solutions deliver AI-driven threat prevention and unified security management for advanced protection across enterprise networks.
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Running GPT-OSS-120B at 500 tokens per second on Nvidia GPUs
Train, serve, and scale open-source and custom AI models on the fastest, most reliable inference platform.
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How I use Tailscale
I’ve been using Tailscale for around four years to connect my disparate devices, servers and apps together. I wanted to talk a bit about how I use it, some cool features you might not know about, and some stumbling blocks I encountered.
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Overengineering my homelab so I don't pay cloud providers
After years on a VPS, I'm moving my self-hosted services home and using the opportunity to migrate to a more flexible and robust setup.
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Writing a basic service for GNU Guix
Let's write a service for GNU Guix that will automatically start kmonad at boot, and keep it running until shutdown.
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AWS deleted my 10-year account and all data without warning
After 10 years as an AWS customer and open-source contributor, they deleted my account and all data with zero warning. Here's how AWS's 'verification' process became a digital execution, and why you should never trust cloud providers with your only copy of anything.
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Ubiquiti launches UniFi OS Server for self-hosting
Ubiquiti just released UniFi OS Server in Early Access, allowing you to self-host the complete UniFi network stack on your own hardware. Initially, it will support UniFi Network and Innerspace. Besides UniFi Network and InnerSpace,
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Stargate Norway
We’re launching Stargate Norway—OpenAI’s first AI data center initiative in Europe under our OpenAI for Countries program. Stargate is OpenAI’s overarching infrastructure platform and is a critical part of our long-term vision to deliver the benefits of AI to everyone.
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Build Your Own Minisforum N5 Inspired Mini NAS
Print your own 5-bay N5 Mini NAS! Inspired by the Minisforum N5, this 175mm x 175mm design fits most small beds—use any mini PC you prefer.
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Replacing cron jobs with a centralized task scheduler
A brief description of our task scheduling system
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Fast and cheap bulk storage: using LVM to cache HDDs on SSDs
My attempt to create fast and cheap bulk storage by caching HDDs with SSDs on Linux, using standard lvmcache. Contains an introduction to LVM, RAID, and partitioning.
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The future is not self-hosted
In a world where corporations have detached buying from owning, one man attempts to do something radical: build his own cloud.
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Reverse engineering GitHub Actions cache to make it fast
We reverse engineered GitHub Actions cache internals to transparently route cache requests through our faster, colocated cache. This delivered up to 10x faster cache performance for some of our customers, with no code changes required and no need to maintain forks of upstream actions.
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SecretSpec: Declarative Secrets Management
Fast, Declarative, Reproducible, and Composable Developer Environments using Nix.
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Log by time, not by count
By default, log based on fixed time intervals rather than number of messages.
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Make Your Own Backup System – Part 1: Strategy Before Scripts
When a datacenter fire threatened 142 of my servers, my backup strategy had them back online in hours. This post shares my personal philosophy on creating a resilient system, focusing on the crucial planning that must happen before you write a single script.
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My Self-Hosting Setup
A blog on technology, Star Wars, and other random thoughts. Plus some half way decent photography!
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Cloudflare 1.1.1.1 Incident on July 14, 2025
On July 14th, 2025, Cloudflare made a change to our service topologies that caused an outage for 1.1.1.1 on the edge, resulting in downtime for 62 minutes for customers using the 1.1.1.1 public DNS Resolver as well as intermittent degradation of service for Gateway DNS. We’re deeply sorry for this outage. This outage…
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Data Centers and Water Consumption | Article
See all of our articles on the impacts of data centers , including their energy needs, water usage, noise pollution, and contribution to higher energy bills: The Environmental Impacts of Data Centers (Article Series)
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Monitoring My Homelab, Simply
Don’t get me wrong, I understand that they’re essential for large fleets of services with fast-changing software and teams of oncallers working around the clock to understand the complex ways that complex systems fail… but my stuff doesn’t change that often, failures are mundane and low-scope, and I’m the only person…