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Three months ago I paid $340 for a Ubiquiti UDM Pro to handle routing and firewall duties for a small office network I manage. It died after 11 weeks. The fan b...
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Someone published a dataset last week showing 7,655 confirmed ransomware claims across one calendar year. Broken down by group, sector, country. I spent an hour...
A developer named Andrea Marcheschi cracked open the White House's new mobile app last week like a kid opening a birthday present, and what he found inside was ...
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GitHub Apparently Cannot Hit Three Nines of Uptime — So I Built a Git Failover Strategy and Here Is Exactly How You Can Too Last Tuesday, around 2:30 PM East...
LocalStack Just Killed Its Free Tier and I Almost Panicked — Then I Found Floci I got the email on a Monday morning. March 3rd, 2026. Coffee in hand, Slack a...
I Set Up a Remote Dev Environment With an AI Coding Agent on a $12 VPS — And Now I Cannot Go Back to Local Development Three weeks ago, my MacBook's SSD star...
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I got a Slack message at 6:14 AM on Friday from Tom, our sysadmin. Just a link to an INTERPOL press release and the words "we should probably check our stuff." ...
A Fedora Linux developer named Marcin Juszkiewicz published a blog post yesterday with the kind of title that makes server hardware enthusiasts either nod knowi...
I have been following homomorphic encryption for about five years now, which puts me in a very small and very nerdy club of people who get genuinely excited abo...
Every time I recommend shared hosting in a tech forum, someone shows up to tell me I am an idiot. "Just get a $5 VPS," they say, like managing a Linux server is...
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I'm going to say something that will make half the DevOps community angry: most startups should not be using Kubernetes. There. I said it. And before you close...
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I have migrated 23 WordPress sites to cloud hosting over the past three years. Seven of those migrations went perfectly. The other 16 broke something — missin...
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I have a confession: I've migrated my WordPress site seventeen times in the last three years. My developer friends think I have a problem. My therapist agrees. ...
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