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Deploy your own PocketBase backend to a remote env in less than an hour

Context Every once in a while I have to stand up a new backend/DB. I used to just use Supabase, but I don't like the idea of not owning my data, and…

The AWS network inventory, now also a CSV you can filter

What the VPC Atlas inventory holds, the four formats it comes in, and why I made the CSV one flat row per resource. The diagram is the picture, the…

HANDS-ON NETWORKING LAB: Configuring 20 PCs, 1 DHCP Server, and 2 Switches

As part of my practical networking journey, I worked on a small office network infrastructure consisting of 20 client PCs, 1 DHCP server, and 2 swit…

A Staging Website Needs Its Own Security and Integration Rules

A staging site is a separate operational environment. Copying production into a public subdomain without changing its behavior can expose data and t…

We Deleted Two Hundred Virtual Machines and Kept Paying for Their Disks

Last year we finished moving the last of our older applications off virtual machines in the cloud and onto managed services. As each application mov…

The Linear Frontier

The core economic narrative underwriting the current wave of artificial intelligence investment is recursive self-improvement. The investment thesis…

Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Stop Managing Infrastructure Manually

Imagine deploying an application to production, only to discover that the server configuration is different from your development environment. The a…

How to find the closed port that stops an EC2 web page loading, and lock down SSH

You launched an Amazon EC2 instance, installed a web server, and typed its public address into a browser. The tab spins and then times out. Nothing…

A Reproducible 3D Workflow for a Creekside College Campus

I built a small test workflow around a community college that needs a learning commons, student housing, and a public creek garden. The campus sits…

Understanding Solar Street Light Installation Layouts

Solar street light installation is not just about choosing a suitable lamp and mounting it on a pole. The arrangement of the lights along a road als…

NVR storage arithmetic: bitrate, units and mixed camera groups

A camera's resolution does not determine recording storage. Start with the average bitrate of the stream you will actually record, camera count and…

Clean Shutdown and Restart Order for a Small Office in a Texas Grid Emergency

A small office survives a Texas grid emergency by shutting down cleanly before the power drops and restarting in dependency order after it returns.…

How to Choose a CNAPP Solution That Reduces Cloud Risk

Choosing the wrong cloud security platform can leave an organization in a worse position than before the purchase. The security team gains another c…

Self-Hosted vs Managed Inference for Financial Documents: Cost, Privacy and Operations

Quick answer: SIE runs the same engine both ways. Put public filings on SIE Cloud, where you pay for what you use and Superlinked runs the GPUs. Sel…

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How We Built a 200-User Office Network in Three Weeks

A financial firm was moving into a full floor in Midtown Manhattan. More than 200 people would sit down on opening day and expect the wired ports, t…

End of an era in Japan for classic push-button phones

Traditional Japanese flip phones, known as gara-kei, survived for decades with unique local features before final 3G network shutdowns ended their e…

Why Engineering Laptops Are Becoming the Biggest Cybersecurity Risk in Industrial Facilities

Why Engineering Laptops Are Becoming the Biggest Cybersecurity Risk in Industrial Facilities An in-depth analysis of engineering workstation securit…

FINAL KUBERNETES PRODUCTION CAPSTONE Dev Staging Production | Helm | Argo CD | Security | Storage | 10 Production Incidents

“I built and operated a production-style Kubernetes platform with separate dev, staging, and production environments. I deployed applications with H…

Email Infrastructure for Open-Source Maintainers

If you maintain an open-source project, you already have enough things to worry about. Issues. PRs. Releases. Documentation. Contributors. Servers.…

Submer: The Barcelona-Born Immersion Cooling Powering AGI Supercomputers

When the technology industry in 2026 debates the horizon of Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) , discussions routinely gravitate toward mathemati…

Phase 0, Part 1: Turning Copy-Pasted Terraform Into a Reusable Proxmox Module

My original infrastructure is three bare-metal Proxmox machines clustered together. The clustering just makes administration a bit easier. Those run…

Top IoT Development Tools & Platforms for 2026

Developing Internet of Things (IoT) applications requires a balanced combination of hardware controls, low-latency protocols, real-time data ingesti…

Trace log #3: Tracing one alert through Alert manager

The signal problem I was trying to understand how mature systems separate signal from noise when many alerts arrive at once. I had been working thro…

RDP vs VPS: Features, Benefits, and Key Differences

If you’ve been comparing RDP vs VPS and aren’t sure which term applies to what you actually need, you’re not alone — the two get used interchangeabl…

How HuskHoard Talks to the Cloud (and Why It Beats Managing Buckets by Hand)

A question we keep getting from people trying HuskHoard for the first time is some version of: "So it archives to S3... but how is that different fr…

PHP-FPM: The Complete Guide to High-Performance PHP Applications

PHP-FPM: The Complete Guide to High-Performance PHP Applications Introduction PHP-FPM (FastCGI Process Manager) has become the backbone of modern PH…

What the GPT-6 Guide Tells Us About What Developers Actually Need

I spent some time reading through OpenAI's GPT-6 model guide, and honestly, the most interesting part wasn't the models themselves. It was the opera…

12,488,458 answers on port 9080 beside 77,076 WebSphere matches: reading a Java middleware estate

12,488,458 answers on port 9080 beside 77,076 WebSphere matches: reading a Java middleware estate Java application servers are the largest identifie…

Data transfer is the AWS line item everyone underestimates

Data transfer costs are the most consistently underestimated line item in AWS They're not the biggest cost in most accounts. But they're the one tha…