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The unreasonable effectiveness of the pancake rule

Having problems with your team being late to the daily stand-up? Try this!

How to run Uptime Kuma in Docker in an IPv6-only environment

When you’re too cheap to pay for an IPv4 address but you’d really like to monitor your services.

Feature toggles: just roll your own!

It’s one of those build-vs-buy discussions where the build option is genuinely better in 99.99999% of the cases.

Why my blog was down for over 24 hours in November 2024

Everything I learned from an incident that made me consider switching careers. It was a close one!

Backing up another PC with a single Ethernet cable

If all you have is an Ethernet cable, then everything looks like a temporary storage device.

The IPv6 situation on Docker is good now!

It’s not often when a piece of software has genuinely improved, which is why this is worth celebrating!

You can use almost anything as a key file for your encrypted storage device

Yes, you can decrypt your storage with a picture of your cat.

Your Wi-Fi might be terrible because of Dynamic Frequency Selection (DFS)

My Wi-Fi kept dropping out until I learned about this fun little feature. Here’s how to fix it for good.

No HDMI port on the ThinkPad T430? No problem!

Yes, you can fit a HDMI port in the ThinkPad T430, no crazy modifications required.

OpenWRT, ISP modem and dynamic IP addresses: how to fix connectivity issues without rebooting your router every time

The solution proposed might be a bit specific for my particular setup, but hopefully useful to someone out there.

The hidden media play/pause/stop keys on the Lenovo ThinkPad L390 Yoga

How a few accidental key presses revealed the presence of media playback control keys on my ThinkPad L390 Yoga.

The simplicity of the modulo operator: how I scaled an inefficient solution on a legacy system

Sometimes the best solution is the one that works well enough and can be cranked out quickly.

Anything’s a portable speaker if you’re brave enough

All about that time I converted a JBL soundbar into a portable speaker

Strangling your service with a Kubernetes misconfiguration

Short story about a fun and simple way to shoot yourself in the foot, Kubernetes style.

Tech tip: eliminate HDD humming noise

Silence your hard drives with this one weird trick! System administrators hate him!