8 free DevOps practice platforms that put you in front of a terminal
Watching a tutorial and fixing a broken server in production are two different skills, and the gap is mostly hands-on time on real systems. You do not need a paid lab subscription…
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Your Search Console clicks are missing because AI searched instead
A page on my own site picked up 7,480 impressions across a ninety day window, sat at an average position of 8.5 on Google’s first page, and earned seven clicks. Click-through rate…
Eight interview prep services tested against each other
Most interview prep advice falls into two camps. The first says practice on a friend, the second says use a chatbot. Both are missing the middle ground, which is the dedicated interview…
Android finally has Flighty alternatives and Aviate wins most
Two flight-tracking apps on Android are worth a serious look right now, and the source material on the better one is unusual. Most Android flight apps still feel like ports of an…
The 10-minute security sweep I run on my 19 smart devices every year
The number that got me was nineteen. That is how many devices on my home network had a reachable port, a cloud account, or a Bluetooth radio at the end of last…
Self-hosting did not kill these four subscriptions
I spent two years replacing cloud subscriptions with self-hosted alternatives. Immich holds my photos. Nextcloud replaced Google Drive. Jellyfin runs the music. Plex serves the movies. After all that work, four services…
I stopped losing newsletters to my inbox. One Zap fixed it.
I subscribe to maybe thirty newsletters. I read maybe five of them properly. The other twenty-five just pile up in my Gmail until I open one with a subject line I half-remember…
One free streaming app earned more screen time than the rest
I have four TVs in rotation and zero interest in paying for another subscription. So for the last month I let four free, ad-supported apps fight it out across my main set,…
Bitwarden self-host lands on AWS and Azure Marketplaces
Bitwarden is now listed in the AWS Marketplace and Azure Marketplace, which means a working Bitwarden self-host server is about fifteen minutes away from a single marketplace listing click. The deployment is…
Tailscale on Linux, the VPN that skips the certificate headache
Tailscale is a VPN built on top of WireGuard (a kernel-level encrypted tunnel protocol) that replaces the certificate and key-management parts with identity-based authentication. You install it on a server, you install…