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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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Two years with CloudFormation: lessons learned
It’s been close to two years since I started working with AWS CloudFormation, the Infrastructure as Code solution by and for AWS. With CloudFormation you can describe and provision your entire AWS infrastructure in code. The entire AWS environment I work with is provisioned through CloudFormation - we only have…
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Sysadmining Like It's 2009
2026 legacy lab summer camp plan
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Building Password Purgatory with Cloudflare Pages and Workers
I have lots of little ideas for various pet projects, most of which go nowhere ( Have I Been Pwned [https://haveibeenpwned.com/] being the exception), so I'm always looking for the fastest, cheapest way to get up and running. Last month as part of my blog post on How
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Lessons from Building Node Apps in Docker
Here are some tips and tricks I've learned for developing and deploying web applications written for node.js using Docker (2019 edition).
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Systemd has been a complete, utter, unmitigated success
Eleven init systems enter, one init system leaves.
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The Syslog Hell
Syslog. You’ve probably heard about that, especially if you are into monitoring or security. Syslog is perceived to be the common, unified way that systems can send logs to otherContinue reading
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Powering the Mars Base
This post is part of the series on space topics. This post is not the last word on this topic. The usual caveats apply. I’m curious if you have strong opinions on different fuel mixes. A grow…
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Back That Gmail Up
I’m not leery of Google shuttering its Gmail service, but I can imagine a scenario where they cut off my access to Gmail and I have no way to plead my case to the search behemoth. So I went looking …
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Rebuilding my homelab: Suffering as a service
With additional Kubernetes mode!
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Ten years isn't long enough for maximum age settings
You're probably reading this page because you've attempted to access some part of my blog (Wandering Thoughts) or CSpace , the wiki thing it's part of. Unfortunately you're using a browser version that my anti-crawler precautions consider suspicious, most often because it's too old (most often this applies to versions…
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Stable Linux mainline builds for Ubuntu
Stéphane Graber's website -
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Building a bare-metal Kubernetes cluster on Raspberry Pi
I’ll be walking you step by step on how I built a bare-metal, 3-node Kubernetes cluster running on Raspberry Pi. I'll also share some tips and tricks I learned along the way.
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Refix: Fast, Debuggable, Reproducible Builds
What makes it really fast is a small Rust program called refix that post-processes your build outputs (if you don't want to compile from source, here's a static Linux binary .) Both the program and this document are written for the context of C/C++ source code compiled to native binaries. But this can work with other…
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Nginx image processing server with OpenResty and Lua
Today I'll be showing you how to create a fast on the fly image processing server. The whole system can be created in less than 100 lines of code. We'll be using OpenResty , an enhanced distribution of Nginx. We'll also need to write a...
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Serving 90TB/Day of Linux Updates from Thin Clients
The thoughts and projects of an engineer who likes to convert solder, firmware, and wire into all sorts of different forms of entertainment.
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Why I Won't Use Rimuhosting
I originally got a VPS at Rimuhosting because their website lauded their “fanatical service” and a friend had concurred. In September 2006, I ordered my first server.
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Self-hosting is being enshittified
Self-hosting got harder in 2025. Here's what changed.
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Wireguard VPN: Typical Setup (2017)
I recently discovered the awesome Wireguard VPN tunnel and I was sold. Wireguard is a simple, kernel-based, state-of-the-art VPN that also happens to be ridiculously fast and uses modern cryptographic principles that all other highspeed VPN solutions lack.
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Use `nproc` and not grep /proc/cpuinfo
There’s something really quite subtle about how the nproc utility from GNU coreutils works. If you look at the man page, it’s even the very first sentence: Print the number of processin…
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Postgres, Kafka, and a mysterious 100 GB
Lately I’ve been trying to learn more about Amazon Web Services (AWS) and some other popular technologies. Since I work at a large tech company, I spend a lot of my professional time using pr…
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