How-To: Web Server Quick Wins a Read-Only Audit Will Find
A careful read-only audit of a web server almost always turns up the same handful of things. None of them are fancy, and all of them…
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Follow How-Tos via RSSHow-To: Hardening an Authoritative BIND DNS Server
If you run your own authoritative DNS with BIND, it’s easy to set it up once and forget it. Here’s the checklist I work through: audit…
How-To: Create WordPress Drafts Safely From a Script
If you want a script or an AI agent to help with your blog, the WordPress REST API is the way in. The trick is setting…
How-To: Running a Team of AI Bots With Grok Bot
Instead of one AI doing everything, you can set up a small team of bots that each own one job. Here’s the general pattern with Grok…
How-To: Free Home Network Monitoring With Zabbix
You don’t need to pay for monitoring at home. Zabbix is free, open source and will watch your servers, network gear and services, and tell you…
How-To: Hardening a New Linux Server
Every new server I stand up gets the same basic treatment before it does anything else. Here’s the checklist. Update everything and turn on automatic security…
How-To: A NetFlow Dashboard on a Raspberry Pi With nfdump and nfsen-ng
Ever wonder what’s actually talking on your network? NetFlow tells you who talked to whom, how much and when. A Raspberry Pi running nfdump and nfsen-ng…
How Omarchy Themes Work (and How to Build Your Own)
One of my favorite things about Omarchy is how easy it is to make it look like yours. Here’s how a theme is put together, so…
Userdata Switcher: Work and Personal Cursor Accounts, Side by Side
A free community extension uses Cursor's --user-data-dir flag to keep work and personal accounts signed in at once. Cursor should make it native.