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Latest — 26 Jun 2026

June Spam wave

I've been observing a new email spam wave hitting my servers in the last couple of weeks... Way above the normal "background radiation levels" for my server... 99% of them are poorly configured, and usually fail during "does the sender domain actually exist in DNS&

More issues

Podcast Episode 99: DX and Skill Issues

This one took a long time to get out, but it is finally out. #100 was recorded and will come out next week 🤞 . We chat about how developer experience affects delivery speed, happiness and morale. We also chat about how a lot of problems with team dynamics are self-inflicted.

Macbook Microphone has no dynamic range

Or maybe chooses not to, I'm not sure... But from looking at the waveform it feels like it should be clipping all the time and it's compressed to all hell... For instance, this waveform is from my budget AudioTechnica AT2035 going to (not so budget at

Podcast Episode 98: I'd rather homeschool

Hello everyone. In today's episode we chat about school. I'm of an opinion that schools are extended day cares, and are probably the worst way to prepare kids for good life. My counterpart seems to disagree in principle, but I find that his ideas only reinforce

Automating Mantrae Traefik management with mantrae-agent

So, about a year ago I wrote about deploying Mantrae to help manage my traefik ingress for my homelab. It's been steadily working, making it a breeze. I've since furnished it with OIDC authentication, and went through upgrading several new versions. For some time now I&

We have acceleration

My homelab consists of two machines. A Minisforum MS-01 mini PC and a Aoostar WTR PRO 5825U NAS box. In terms of GPU, MS-01 has an Intel Iris xe integrated GPU, and the WTR has a Radeon Vega integrated GPU. AMD is basically out of the race when

Well, I got hacked

It wasn't too serious, it didn't really break containment that much... I was noticing that the qBittorrent app in my TrueNAS is constantly sitting at elevated CPU usage even though it was idle, but restarting it was usually enough for it to go back to zero.

Going paperless with Paperless-NGX and a document scanner

I'm getting quite tired of the reams of paper that everyone is trying to send to my mailbox on any random occasion. Did you know, that you can put a red dot sticker on the inside of your mailbox to stop receiving all mail that is not explicitly

Bots signing up

In the last week a bunch of blog signups have happened, but they are extremely suspicious. I've switched the sign up to paid only to prevent that, but if you want to subscribe - let me know and I'll give you an invite.

Podcast Episode 97: Startups

Hello everyone, in today's episode we are talking primarily about startups. My information is fairly outdated, since I've not really been a part of one in a while, but it should still be mostly correct, I would hope. Check it out. P.S. As the kid