How to expose a Linux service through whichever firewall is running
If a service works on the box you started it on but cannot be reached from another machine, the host firewall is one of the first places to look. Opening a port…
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A practical field guide to cheaper AI coding workflows
Cheap AI coding is easy. Cheap AI coding that still ships correct code is the actual problem. The teams I have watched waste the most money on AI tooling are the ones…
Where Windows 11 hides its per-event sound picker dialog
Windows 11 is louder than most people want it to be. The default event sounds are fine for a fresh install, and they get old fast. There is also a wider problem…
ani-cli streams anime from your Linux terminal, with caveats
There is a small category of Linux tools that exist because someone got tired of opening ten browser tabs to do one thing. ani-cli is one of those tools. It is a…
Why AI observability needs its own telemetry model now
If you ship an LLM feature in production and your telemetry looks the same as it did for the REST API you ran before it, you are going to miss the bugs…
How to actually measure your CDN from the Linux command line
A fast load time on the laptop you happen to be sitting in front of is not evidence that your content delivery network (CDN) is working for the rest of the planet.…
Patch a mixed Linux fleet: what keeps slipping and how to see it
Patching a single Linux machine is the easy part. You run its package manager (the tool that installs, updates, and removes software on a Linux system), reboot if the kernel changed, and…
Set Codex CLI’s sandbox flags before you let it touch anything
OpenAI’s Codex CLI is the company’s terminal coding agent. It reads files, runs commands, and edits your repository. It is fast, it understands a large context window, and it can be wrong…
A weekend and a jailbreak later, my Kindle reads home state
I had a Kindle Paperwhite doing duty as a Home Assistant (an open-source home automation platform that talks to lights, switches, thermostats, and other smart devices) dashboard for a few months. It…
Four Docker containers that earn their keep on an old phone
I have a home lab. It runs about thirty containers across two x86 boxes, and I reach them over Tailscale (a mesh VPN that lets devices on different networks talk as if…