After 10 years or 10,000 hours, most SRE & DevOps practitioners are YAML expert witnesses. We've written tens of thousands of lines of YAML - Kubernetes manifests, GitLab CI pipelines, Ansible playbooks, Docker Compose files, infrastructure definitions. We understand the format intimately. We know its quirks, its strengths, its …

We just harvested uncloseai: Machine Learning Inference Client Reference Manual. 454 pages. 58 implementations across languages. 5 days from seed to harvest (October 11-16, 2025).

This seems like permacomputer agriculture. We don't write books. We grow them.

The full webwords implementations have proper error handling, logging, and structure. But what's the absolute minimum code needed to implement the core functionality?

The companion webwords git repo lives here.

So you ran make build-all on webwords and now your root filesystem is 100% full. BTRFS doesn't clean up Docker volumes the way you'd expect. Here's how to unpotato your system.

The companion webwords git repo lives here.

The companion webwords git repo lives here.

Webwords now supports 42 programming languages. TimeHexOn assisted with this milestone over 2 days using a code agent tool.

42 languages. Same as the answer to life, the universe, and everything. Coincidence? Probably. But each implementation solves the exact same problem in completely …

Running Docker containers on a server with limited memory can lead to out-of-memory (OOM) issues, which can disrupt services and lead to downtime. This guide will show you how to increase swap space on an Ubuntu server to provide a buffer against OOM errors, using a real-world example from a …

letsencrypt certbot is now installable via snap (the deb apt repository is no longer maintained).

alternatively you can use certbot via docker if you plan to use the certonly mode.

I did run into some issues & I will document my workarounds here:

domains=(
    example.com
    shop.example.com
)

for domain …

Today's essay acts as a power-up love story for the underdog.

A living document & quickstart for:

• bootstrappers
• small business under 99 employees
• solo ops or devs
• entrepreneurs
• hackers
• tinkerers

You also deserve a quick start to a GitLab Server power house!

Regardless of my intended audience, this strategy should scale …

We GROW with Truth, Freedom, Love.

We scroll through the official GNUnet handbook, everything is covered in details, sections have examples. Seems verbose at first glance but also familiar .

Freedom of speech is under attack.

I AM not scared, we understand the technology we have and …

Ok, so a month ago I changed employment and the new company uses GitLab exclusively for centralized code version control system.

This is my first time using GitLab and my first projects was integrating a dou/cloudmapper with a GitLab runner on a schedule.

After a couple weeks I've learned …

tl;dr use a custom entrypoint in your CircleCI 2.0 config to limit Java memory to 1G.

The new CircleCI 2.0 docker configuration supports a "primary image" (listed first) which runs all the "steps" as well as zero or many "service images" (listed subsequently). The "service images", although …

The companion webwords git repo lives here.

This project shows how to code the same minimal web app called webwords in as many different programming languages as possible. It also provides guides for building and running webwords as a docker image.

This post continues from where we left off on the Minikube guide. If you do not already have a Kubernetes cluster, you should read that first.

Selenium Grid allows you to build a cluster of Selenium nodes. Today we will create a Selenium cluster with 1 hub and 4 nodes …

Minikube allows you to run a self contained, single node, Kubernetes cluster on your workstation. Once installed and configured, you may use kubectl to interact with it, just like a production Kubernetes cluster.

Reference: https://kubernetes.io/docs/getting-started-guides/minikube/

Tricks to reduce Bind9's large memory footprint on Joyent Triton.

When operations first became a thing, system administrators stood up servers using a base image from their favourite distribution. Things were done manually. Some administrators created their own distros, some wrote customised shell scripts to be run once-and-only-once to provision software and settings. This method worked, but it was slow …

As a warning before we dive into things, this post is less of a formal publication and more of a stream of conscience.

My employer newcars.com has allowed the technical staff to host hackathon! Over the past couple weeks I have had quite a few ideas tumbling around in …