A CLI or desktop tool, what it replaces and where it breaks.
- witr: Trace Any Process Back to Why It's Running
- Harper: The Grammar Checker That Stays on Your Machine
- croc: file transfer through NAT without SSH or open ports
Writing/Topics
Six topics.
Every post carries exactly one. If a post seems to need a new one, it doesn't — the list stays closed on purpose.
Linux itself — storage internals, filesystems, the networking stack, systemd, the kernel.
- Data Center Part 8: The cheat sheet
- Data Center Part 7: Directing remote hands
- Data Center Part 6: Leaving the cage
Building a Linux system from source, one package at a time.
- The Finish Line — A Complete Linux From Scratch
- Compiling the Kernel — The Heart of Your System
- Bootscripts and System Configuration
Software you run as a service on your own server.
- Openship: Deploy to Your Own Server Without the YAML
- DocuSeal: Self-Host Your Document Signing
- Karakeep: a self-hosted replacement for Pocket
AI as a topic — models, concepts, local inference. Not AI products.
- Self-hosted AI for software engineers: the stack that replaces cloud tools
- Free AI APIs in 2026: Every Developer Should Know These
- Every AI dev buzzword you're seeing right now, explained
Orchestration, CI/CD, deployment, containers at scale.
- Database Storage in Kubernetes: What Your Colleague Got Wrong and Everything Else You Need to Know
- Nomad + Consul from Zero to Hero
- TeamCity from Zero to Hero: Architecture, Concepts, and Your First Pipeline