An engineer shares his 3-year experience of working remotely from Australia for a US firm, detailing the challenges of extreme timezone differences.
Explores a Linux user-land persistence technique using D-Bus to execute code without root access, targeting desktop environments.
Explores common disk I/O failure scenarios in transactional applications and how real-world systems handle data integrity issues.
A technical guide on enabling Position Independent Executable (PIE) builds in Go for security hardening, covering the process and troubleshooting dynamic linking issues.
A guide to upgrading a Raspberry Pi 400 to the 64-bit Raspberry Pi OS 2024-11-19, covering the installation process and software compatibility.
A software engineer's 100-day challenge to explore and document every GNU Coreutils command, sharing insights and examples.
Microsoft introduces a native sudo command for Windows 11, allowing users to run commands with elevated privileges directly from the terminal.
A tutorial on installing and running the Mistral AI large language model locally on a Linux system using the Ollama platform.
A tutorial on installing the Deepseek AI model locally on a Linux machine using the Ollama platform.
Essential Linux skills for SQL Database Administrators to improve efficiency and marketability in modern IT environments.
A deep dive into implementing a Unix tool with retry logic and timeouts, exploring multiple system-level approaches for waiting on child processes.
A guide on migrating from Redis to Valkey on Ubuntu 24.04, covering installation and configuration as a drop-in replacement.
Guide to installing the Obsidian note-taking app within WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux) while running its GUI natively on Windows.
A guide to creating a desktop shortcut that instantly renders your clipboard contents as a QR code for easy transfer to a phone.
A software engineer reflects on formative internships at Corel and OTI/IBM, working on Linux, Wine, .NET, and the Eclipse SWT toolkit.
CrowdStrike's security updates caused crashes on Debian and Rocky Linux servers, revealing gaps in their testing procedures.
Introducing wlhc, a small program written in Hare that enables hot corner functionality for Wayland desktops.
A technical guide on configuring Linux systems to generate and save core dump files for debugging program crashes.
A technical guide on reclaiming unused swap partition space by expanding the root partition to the left using tools like sfdisk and gparted.
Explains DNS resolution on Linux and Kubernetes, focusing on troubleshooting a common Kubernetes DNS warning message.
