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100 Days of DevOps and Cloud (AWS), Day 10: Automating Backups Over SSH, and What an Elastic IP Really Costs Now
A backup you have to babysit is not a backup. The whole point is that it runs without you, at 2 am, while you sleep, which means it cannot stop to ask…
Is Your 24/7 Automation Actually Alive? Checking It With a Single Command
In my previous autopilot article , I walked through a setup that runs Claude unattended via launchd. This time I want to talk about what happens behin…
How to Manage Dotfiles with GNU Stow (and Rebuild Your Whole Ubuntu Server in One Command)
Every time I got a fresh Ubuntu VPS, I lost half a day to the same ritual: install zsh, copy over my .zshrc , remember which tools I had on the old ma…
You are polluting Your Standard Output ( stdout ) in Go
Using fmt.Println for error handling isnt a practical way, especially in linux or unix based systems. because if you're using bash or zsh or any other…
My favourite zsh/bash shortcuts (functions and aliases)
Introduction My zsh profile is over 1000 lines at this point. A lot of that is functions I asked AI to generate for me, since it's fast, portable, and…
Linux Screen Recording: A C++ GUI or 26 Lines of Bash?
I've used a Linux OS as my daily driver for 15 years now. Recently, I wanted a way to record my screen on my minimal Linux system. The obvious choice …
I Spent 40 Minutes at 11pm Debugging a Deploy That Wasn't Broken
I once spent forty minutes at eleven at night debugging a deploy that wasn't broken. The release script ran the database migration, the migration thre…
Claude Code hooks are the seatbelt nobody buckles — here's the 10-hook setup that makes agent disasters impossible
Every Claude Code power user has a story: the force-pushed main, the "helpfully" rewritten .env, the API key committed at 2am. The fix has been sittin…
Check your IP, ASN, and VPN/proxy leaks from the terminal with curl (no signup, no key)
Every "what's my IP" site is a bloated page covered in ads, cookie banners, and "sign up for a VPN" popups. Half the time I just want the number, and …
Building haven bench in the open, and the flaky CI ghost it flushed out
A debugging story from building InferHaven in the open: how a benchmark feature flushed out a flaky-CI race that had nothing to do with it. I shipped …
Where the Hell Do I Put This Token? Syncing Claude Code Secrets to 3 Macs with the 1Password CLI
Intro At some point I looked up and I had three Macs. There's a clear reason they multiplied: trying to do everything on one machine fell apart. Run a…
Linux Backup Made Simple: Automate Incremental System Snapshots with Restic
A single Bash script, a USB drive, and 30 seconds a day. No cloud. No subscriptions. No excuses. You have spent months tweaking your Linux environment…
A Cron Job Took Our Server to Load 41 by Attacking Itself
A */1 rsync took our staging box to a load average of 41 one afternoon, and it took me longer than I want to admit to work out why. The sync normally …
Meet mytuis: A Sleek Terminal Application Manager Built with Bash and Gum
Having spent over 25 years in software development and managing countless Linux environments, I've accumulated a vast collection of custom bash script…
5 Automation Mistakes That Cost Me Weeks (And How to Avoid Them)
5 Automation Mistakes That Cost Me Weeks (And How to Avoid Them) I've been running autonomous AI workers for months now. Bash scripts, systemd timers,…
Green tests, broken docs. Dogfooding caught what 15 tests missed
A broken doc still renders. That is the whole reason documentation rot is so dangerous. The page looks fine right up to the moment someone clicks the …
I Packaged the Scripts I Copy to Every New Server Into a $9 Toolkit. Here's What's In It and Why.
Every time I provision a new server — whether it's a $5 DigitalOcean droplet for a side project or a client's production box — there's a set of script…
I was handed a server with no docs and no idea what it was listening on. One command fixed that.
A client handed me SSH access to a server they'd been running for two years. No documentation. No handoff notes. No "here's what's running and why." J…
How to Automate Azure Resource Group Creation with a Bash Script
If you are just getting started with Azure CLI and Bash scripting, this post is for you. I will walk you through how I automated the creation of Azure…
Scaling User Management on Linux: Moving Beyond the Manual Script
The Scenario: The Help Desk Bottleneck From 2019 to 2021, while serving as Lead Backend Software Engineer at a fast-growing company, I occasionally su…
LLM-Manager: Orchestrating Ollama and Llama.cpp with Pure Bash
LLM-Manager is a lightweight, modular Bash suite with a dual JSON/Interactive interface designed to manage local and remote inference engines across L…
All About AI & Using Claude
AI tools are fundamentally changing what developers can build -- and who can be a developer. Large Language Models (LLMs) and AI are no longer science…
On the Shoulders of Giants: Package Registries, Node & NPM
You've mastered the command line. You understand your operating system and your development environment. Now it's time to learn how modern developers …
Adding Text Selection to Bash
Powershell, as much as I like to hate on it, has a surperior line editor (PSReadLine) than that of Bash (Readline). Out of the box, it works just like…
How I Built 5 Linux Automation Scripts on AWS EC2
I wanted to find out what working on a real Linux server actually feels like — not a local VM, not a simulator. So in May 2026, I spun up an Ubuntu 22…
Building a Self-Service Sandbox Platform from Scratch
This is part of my HNG DevOps internship series. Follow along as I document every stage. A Quick Recap Stage 0 was about securing a Linux server. Stag…
TIL: Snaps Are Secretly Eating Your Disk Space (Here’s How to Fix It) 🐧
If you use Linux as your daily driver, you’ve probably noticed your root partition quietly shrinking over time. You run ncdu or df -h , poke around yo…
Useful Linux Commands Every System Administrator Should Know
Useful Linux Commands Every System Administrator Should Know Linux system administration becomes much easier when you know the right commands for moni…
Stop Guessing 'chmod' I Built a Free Visual Permissions Builder for Linux
The Problem You're about to deploy a script. You know you need the file executable, but readable only by the owner. You type chmod 754 ... or was it 7…