I've been running this blog on Linode for over a year. It costs me $5/month and I have full control over everything. Here is how I set it up. Why Linode I looked at DigitalOcean, AWS, Hetzner. Linode ( now Akamai ) gives you a $100 credit for the
I spent years avoiding systemd. init.d scripts felt familiar, cron was "good enough", and systemctl felt like it was designed to be unreadable. Then I actually read the documentation and realized I'd been fighting the very thing that makes Linux services manageable. Here's
Every side project I've ever shipped has a Makefile. Not because I'm nostalgic or some kind of Unix purist — because after ten years of trying every alternative, Make is still the one that works without surprising me. I've used npm scripts, rake, just, task,
I wrote a post back in 2017 about updating SSH to version 7.5p1. Seven years and countless servers later, SSH is still the tool I use more than anything else — and I've learned a lot of tricks that save me time every single day. Most of them
I set up my first Ghost blog in 2016, on a VPS I'd barely configured, with an SSL certificate I'd manually generated using Let's Encrypt DNS validation. It was janky, it broke constantly, and I loved it. Eight years and one CVE-induced admin key
I first played with GPT-2 back in 2019, when OpenAI released the 1558M parameter model and the whole NLP world lost its mind. I ran it in a Colab notebook, typed in a prompt about Montevideo, and watched it hallucinate streets that don't exist. It was messy, it
Every day, millions of developers run git add, git commit, and git push without a second thought. But have you ever wondered what actually happens inside the .git directory? Understanding Git's internals isn't just academic curiosity — it makes you a more effective developer, helps you recover
This is for anyone in the UK, stuck with a US layout keyboard!!! Recently I bought a cheap mechanical keyboard from the US, even though the layout US-UK is fairly similar, some keys are in a different position, like the # and some others are missing (¦|). Today I needed to type
The following is a simple bash script used to calculate the number of lines in ginormous text files ( like 20G CSV). #!/bin/bash # get the line count of a file without reading the entire file # accuracy can be adjusted by changing the $linenum parameter path=$1 linenum=$2 head=$(head
Follow the instructions to update ssh on the latest version. The process requires patching the current source, which is unfortunately not written anywhere in the open-ssh website. Package Information -Download (HTTP): http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/OpenSSH/portable/openssh-7.5p1.tar.gz Download MD5 sum: 652fdc7d8392f112bef11cacf7e69e23 Download size: 1.