Had an interesting little issue happen today. I have a VPS where I host this and several other wordpress instances for friends. All of it runs inside nice orderly docker containers dictated by a compose file. All of them share the same network to talk to the reverse proxy. The wordpress container talks to the…
This is going to be a bit of a ranty post, but engineers are good at that kind of thing. So here goes. A bit of Background I started my devops career learning about docker and docker-compose. I enjoyed the elegance of being able to write a file of what services I want in a…
What to do if your server gets attacked: First off, don’t panic. What’s happening cannot harm you or anyone else and is an inconvenience, nothing more. Your server wasn’t the first to be attacked and won’t be the last. Swift decisive action by you and your moderators can clean up a server in mere minutes….
What is FrankerFaceZ? If you’ve ever seen words in all caps when watching a twitch streamer, odds are you are seeing FrankerFaceZ (FFZ) emotes being used (or perhaps Better Twitch TV emotes, covered in a separate manual). FrankerFaceZ is a browser extension available for most major web browsers (chrome, firefox, safari, etc). It’s main feature…
I’ve mentioned in my blog previously about the black magic that is AV1 and how it saves so much disk space at comparable quality levels to more traditional video codecs. Unfortunately we live in an imperfect world and not everything is quite ready for AV1 just yet. I’ve noticed it extensively on our various Amazon…
Time to update the appearance of this blog. Nobody likes light mode! Navigation is streamlined and the search button has been added to the main navigation bar. Also included is a handy scroll to top button!
In one of my previous posts I discussed how useful it would be to have a partition with an ISO of your operating system on it that you could boot to and “Factory Reset” your Linux PC with. As it turns out I was greatly overthinking this process, as there’s something out there that can…
There’s something that’s nostalgic about the early web. Everyone had their own website for bespoke topics with simple colors, bad clipart, and often times those little pixel logos/badges at the bottom of the page. The title “webmaster” really meant something as there weren’t as many toolkits to help you out with writing your pure HTML…
This was a very tongue in cheek list I made back in 2012. I think most of it holds true to this day! (Caution: contains crass language)
This was an essay I wrote back in 2018. Several of my opinions have changed since then which I will address at the end of the essay. Chromebooks at first glance can seem to be a very niche piece of technology. After all, why would you want to be limited to only what a web…
