Green tests, broken docs. Dogfooding caught what 15 tests missed
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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…
Отладка bash-скриптов: инструменты, о которых мало кто
В предыдущей статье я рассказал, как писал скрипт мониторинга системы с нуля от идеи до рабочего инструмента с меню, цветным выводом и уведомлениями в…
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…
Как я писал скрипт: от идеи до рабочего инструмента
Пришла в голову задача, которая на словах звучит просто. «Сделай скрипт, который смотрит логи и шлёт в Telegram» ну что тут сложного? Bash…
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…
Heartbeat-мониторинг cron-job'ов: dead-man-switch на FastAPI
Обычный uptime-мониторинг проверяет, отвечает ли сервис на запросы. Cron-job ничего не отвечает — он запускается раз в N часов, делает работу и молча …
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…
Installer на стероидах. Модификация установочных образов Astra linux
У каждого своё чувство перфекционизма. В этой статье я покажу примеры модификации live installer Astra linux, чтобы вы могли создать автономный дистри…
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…
5 CLI Tools I Use to Keep Terminal Workflows Less Annoying
5 CLI Tools I Use to Keep Terminal Workflows Less Annoying The terminal is supposed to make work faster, which is funny, because mine regularly turns …
Ars Asks: Share your shell and show us your tricked-out terminals!
A celebration of the tweaks and customizations that make life easier at the CLI.
I freed 80GB on my Mac with a bash script — no app, no subscription
My Mac mini was telling me I had over 80GB of "System Data" to free up. CleanMyMac wanted €34/year. DaisyDisk wanted €10 just to tell me where the fil…
I replaced server-side image compression with 40 lines of Canvas API code
I was building a side project that needed image compression. My first instinct was to look for an API — TinyPNG, Cloudinary, something with a POST end…
My site went down for a few hours yesterday and my users knew before me
It happened to me. My site — bashsnippets.xyz — had been down for six hours before I knew about it. I found out because a reader emailed me. Not becau…