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16 posts, newest first

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  2026-10-20

  Homelab 2026: Ethernet over coax and a NAS that heats the room

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  2025-04-04

  Thunderbolt instead of 10GbE: 20 Gb networking without a $400 motherboard

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  2025-02-24

  Homelab 2025: don't spend 20 hours to save $10

• 2024-10-12

  TIL: small things that aren't in the docs

• 2024-06-01

  Homelab 2024: a $10 thrift-store router and a cat cam

• 2024-02-13

  DuckDB inside PySpark: cursed, and only 10% slower

• 2023-10-10

  My Mac setup: Raycast, Atuin and Touch ID for sudo

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  2023-06-20

  You don't need port 22 open to SSH into your laptop

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  2023-05-25

  Apple keeps only 2 weeks of screen time, so I keep my own copy

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  2022-10-17

  Attack map, part 2: Redis was a horrible place for my logs

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  2022-06-22

  Strangers tried to log into my server 166,272 times

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  2021-11-19

  Moving my attack map to AWS with Terraform, until the NAT gateway bill

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  2021-03-19

  ★ HaxML: my machine learning model scored kicks too low, and the players noticed

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  2020-10-19

  From hand-written HTML to Next.js, by way of a Raspberry Pi

• 2020-08-21

  My $15-cheaper e-book only opened on one computer, so I removed its DRM

• 2000-02-13

  Lore: cracked APKs, hex editors and free xfinitywifi