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Latest — 25 Nov 2025

Podcast Episode 92: Internet oopsies, innovation, etc...

In today's episode Mo and I talk about various oopsies that happened recently with Cloudflare and AWS. How Rust Evangelism Strike Force is on high alert after a wild .unwrap() has brought down half the internet again... From there the conversation flows into how to prevent such terrible

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Adventures in upgrading Proxmox

📺Hacker News Thread Running docker inside LXC is weird. It's containers on top of other container, and there was a fairly recent issue with AppArmor that prevented some functionality from running inside a docker container with very cryptic error. I was trying to deploy coolify and/or dokploy

Podcast Episode 91: Open Source is Cooked

In today's episode I vent some of my frustrations with the open source scene. It seems like any project of note is completely overtaken by activists and agitators, and it is no longer about technical merit, but all the usual buzzwords of the 2020-ies. Sad. Also, commies turned

Setting up SAML for Kimai time tracker using Zitadel IDP

A few days ago I decided to install Kimai time tracker software onto my home lab. I'm working on a personal project that would require external paid contributors, so, naturally, I want a system to track the time, and in vein will all my other tooling - it

Podcast Episode 90: Fatherhood

Also, I have IG now for photos. Check it out... https://instagram.com/vasili.sviridov

Polyglot 2025

So, today I got a notification for Polyglot Unconference coming back in just a couple of weeks. So, catch me there! Polyglot Software Unconference 2025A day of spontaneous sharing, learning, and networking for software builders. Participants set the agenda using “open-spaces” format.Eventbrite https://www.polyglotsoftware.com/

Podcast Episode 89: OSS vs Commercial Licensing

In today's episode we chat about strategies for finding technical support for integrated libraries and more complex solutions. Do you go with a commercial vendor and be at the mercy of their capacity to solve your issues, or do you pick an open source project and put your

Podcast Episode 88

In today's episode we chat about food prices, grocery logistics, inflation and margins. We also touch upon agriculture, farming, regulation and it's impacts on the above. In the second part we talk about conceptual doomscrolling impacts our lives, the road from legacy media to social media

Updated the blog to Ghost v6

Now to figure out why ActivityPub does not work... Update: Figured out ActivityPub issue... Could not run it locally because I need split DNS to run this from behind my silly domestic modem, so I ended up switching to Ghost's own AP coordinator. I'd have to

Podcast Episode 87: Age and Identity Verification, Censorship, and Authoritarianism

In today's episode we touch on topics of Age and Identity verification online, whether or not it's the job of the Government to protect people from "harmful" opinions, whether they are even capable of doing it and how these kinds of solutions might look