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2026

Battleship Arena: Five Admirals, One Gridoriginal ↗
18 Sept 2026
I Am a Software Mechanicoriginal ↗
20 Mar 2026
fix "the dependency requires Elixir ~> 1.16 but you are running on v1.14" on Ubuntuoriginal ↗
18 Mar 2026
build server postmortem: disk full, CI deadoriginal ↗
8 Mar 2026
two doors shut, one remains open, an olive branchoriginal ↗
7 Mar 2026
royal we & our & one & youoriginal ↗
4 Mar 2026
A Love Letter to JSON Jasonoriginal ↗
27 Feb 2026

2025

Free Agent Looking for Work & JSONResumeoriginal ↗
6 Dec 2025
Brown Out Reboots Servers: NVIDIA Drivers Vanish, Ethernet Dies – Sneaker-Net Rescue with a Bare USB Stickoriginal ↗
6 Nov 2025
who owns yaml?original ↗
18 Oct 2025
Growing a 454-page ML reference manual in 5 days: permacomputer harvestoriginal ↗
16 Oct 2025
pelican theme upgrade: right sidebar table of contentsoriginal ↗
11 Oct 2025
webwords code golf: minimal HTTP servers in multiple languagesoriginal ↗
10 Oct 2025
unpotato webwords: cleaning up btrfs docker volumes after build-alloriginal ↗
10 Oct 2025
webwords reaches 42 languages: the ultimate programming kataoriginal ↗
9 Oct 2025
Analyzing the Godot Engine Codebase: Millions of Lines of Codeoriginal ↗
28 Jul 2025
Building and Modding MultiMower with Dry Engineoriginal ↗
13 Jul 2025
Introducing SLOPoriginal ↗
21 Mar 2025
Free LLM Endpoints & Dynamic Distributed Model Inference Client with UncloseAI.jsoriginal ↗
20 Feb 2025

2024

Free Hermes Machine Learning ai.unturf.com & uncloseai.jsoriginal ↗
22 Oct 2024
Efficient Battleship Board Generation and Data Management with Pythonoriginal ↗
14 Sept 2024
Comparing Elixir and Phoenix Performance with a Community-Driven OpenAI Clientoriginal ↗
30 Aug 2024
Comparing Node.js and Python Performance with the Official OpenAI Clientoriginal ↗
28 May 2024
Integrating OpenAI with Dry's Sample Chat Gameoriginal ↗
17 Feb 2024
Optimizing Memory Management for Plausible Docker on Ubuntuoriginal ↗
5 Feb 2024
Understanding Pause Functionality in LucKey Park Built on Dry Engineoriginal ↗
5 Feb 2024
Installing YaCy on Ubuntuoriginal ↗
4 Feb 2024
Building 'Dry' and 'Park' from Source on Fedora Linuxoriginal ↗
3 Feb 2024

2022

Ubuntu 22.04 Letsencrypt Docker Hintsoriginal ↗
21 May 2022
Uncle Drops off server with note asking u to cl0ne ubuntu22 kvmoriginal ↗
9 May 2022
Vertically Scaling GitLab Server For As Cheap As Possibleoriginal ↗
6 Jan 2022

2021

Russell Open Sources Remarkbox & MakePostSell into Public Domain!original ↗
23 Dec 2021
GNUnet GNS Nameserver Operator Notes, Quickstart, & Cheatsheetoriginal ↗
3 Dec 2021
Copying files between cloud object stores like S3 GCP and Spaces using Boto3original ↗
12 May 2021

2020

I tried to install GitLab on TrueNAS and failedoriginal ↗
25 Oct 2020
WeeChat on-boot in a tmux sessionoriginal ↗
15 Sept 2020

2019

Dreaming of unlimited home computer storage capacityoriginal ↗
15 Dec 2019
Unity Collab not working on Fedora because of an invalid CA certificate pathoriginal ↗
8 Nov 2019
How to fallback to an older FreeNAS version on update failureoriginal ↗
31 Oct 2019
Installing Unity on Linuxoriginal ↗
25 Sept 2019
Pre-signed GET and POST for Digital Ocean Spacesoriginal ↗
12 Jul 2019
Hybrid Hot Water Heater Saves 69 Percent On Energy Consumptionoriginal ↗
5 Feb 2019
AWS nvme to block mappingoriginal ↗
19 Jan 2019

2018

Yuletide Trains and Homegrown Video Gamesoriginal ↗
25 Dec 2018
All Local Heros need a Gig Side Kickoriginal ↗
3 Aug 2018
Running DynamoDB Local service container on CircleCI 2.0original ↗
18 Jul 2018
Pyramid SQLAlchemy bootstrap console script with transaction.manageroriginal ↗
15 Jun 2018
Quickstart to DKIM Sign Email with Pythonoriginal ↗
4 Jun 2018
Fulfilling Childhood Dreams: Solaroriginal ↗
16 Mar 2018

2017

How-to Work From Homeoriginal ↗
9 Nov 2017
webwords: a minimal viable web app with docker in as many languages as possibleoriginal ↗
24 Oct 2017
So You're Planning a Beta Testoriginal ↗
22 Oct 2017
My Search for the Perfect Alternative Hosted Comment Systemoriginal ↗
8 Oct 2017
Selenium grid on Kubernetesoriginal ↗
23 Mar 2017
Minikubeoriginal ↗
21 Mar 2017

2016

Nginx throw HTTP 503 maintenance JSON for all requestsoriginal ↗
21 Dec 2016
Capability driven Presentationoriginal ↗
18 Dec 2016
Build RPM or DEB packages for Node.js using Jenkins and FPMoriginal ↗
1 Dec 2016
Register Super Powers with Pyramid add_request_methodoriginal ↗
24 Nov 2016
Sharing a Pyramid cookie with Flask or Tornadooriginal ↗
21 Nov 2016
My first Systemd Service Script and Overrideoriginal ↗
28 Oct 2016
Set static hostname for RHEL Centos 7 on AWSoriginal ↗
6 Sept 2016
If I swallow lots of air will I be lighter?original ↗
22 Jun 2016
Output all instance identifiers of an AWS VPC to JSONoriginal ↗
21 Jun 2016

2015

Set DNS resolver optionsoriginal ↗
16 Dec 2015
Bind9 on Joyent Tritonoriginal ↗
29 Nov 2015
Migrating from WordPress to Pelicanoriginal ↗
15 Nov 2015
Boto3 get main route tableoriginal ↗
16 Oct 2015
List all installed package names in Pythonoriginal ↗
5 Jul 2015
Filtering AWS resources with Boto3original ↗
2 Jul 2015
Working with botocore's ~/.aws/configoriginal ↗
1 Jul 2015
My Mentororiginal ↗
21 Jun 2015
Change default gateway on all SmartOS Zones and KVM guestsoriginal ↗
2 Jun 2015
SmartOS Ubuntu guest, apt-get not working because IPv6original ↗
10 May 2015
A Python script which searches for available interpretersoriginal ↗
8 May 2015
Migrating libvirt KVM guest to SmartOS KVM guestoriginal ↗
29 Apr 2015
Setting region programmatically in Boto3original ↗
24 Apr 2015
Securely publish Jenkins build artifacts on Salt Masteroriginal ↗
22 Feb 2015
Set postgres user password on PostgreSQL SmartOS Zoneoriginal ↗
22 Jan 2015
Risk, Process, and Balanceoriginal ↗
11 Jan 2015

2014

autofs /net automount stopped workingoriginal ↗
22 Dec 2014
Custom Rundeck HipChat notification templatesoriginal ↗
3 Dec 2014
Build release pipelines on S3 with s3poriginal ↗
24 Nov 2014
Dealing with pagination in Pythonoriginal ↗
14 Nov 2014
Turn python dict into a key=value string and back againoriginal ↗
10 Nov 2014
Migrating MongoDB from Ubuntu to SmartOSoriginal ↗
12 Oct 2014
Set Root Password SmartOS Percona MySQL Zoneoriginal ↗
11 Oct 2014
rabbitsoriginal ↗
19 Sept 2014
reality shatteredoriginal ↗
19 Sept 2014
Heka, World2!original ↗
24 Aug 2014
Mailpile Salt States for Ubuntu or Debianoriginal ↗
16 Aug 2014
You can hack on FreeNAS 9original ↗
15 May 2014
Nginx with SSL and mixed content errors with upstream WSGI serversoriginal ↗
8 May 2014
How to patch Heartbleed OpenSSL defect (libssl) on Ubuntuoriginal ↗
9 Apr 2014
IRC Bot (Foxbot) runs canned remote executions using Salt Stackoriginal ↗
15 Mar 2014
Filter Salt Stack Return Data Outputoriginal ↗
13 Mar 2014
Replace the Nagios Scheduler and NRPE with Salt Stackoriginal ↗
8 Mar 2014
Configuration Management and the Golden Imageoriginal ↗
21 Feb 2014
Automatic Backupsoriginal ↗
7 Feb 2014
tar-backoriginal ↗
7 Feb 2014
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