PgDay Armenia 2026 — Debugging Postgres
Slides, demo, and code from my PgDay Armenia 2026 talk on debugging Postgres crashes with core dumps and GDB.
AI Through IaC, Not Instead of It
The discourse on platform engineering Twitter and Reddit has been pretty consistent for months now: Terraform is dead, HCL is dead, the entire Infrastructure as Code stack is about to get vaporized…
Migrating from GitHub to Forgejo
When Microsoft bought GitHub in 2018 my kneejerk reaction — like so many others — was to start looking for alternatives. For a while I self hosted a Gitea instance but I never totally bought into it:…
The Tiny UDP Cannon: An Android VPN Bypass
On Android 16, a regular app with no special permissions can leak the user’s real IP, even with “Always-On VPN” + “Block connections without VPN” turned on. Those two…
pgagroal 2.1.0 is out!
A new release of the fast connection pooler for PostgreSQL! pgagroal 2.1.0 is out! Yesterday the version 2.1.0 of pgagroal has been released! This is a feature release , and the full changelog is…
Encrypted Void Linux Installation Booting From EFI Stub
How to install Void Linux with LVM over LUKS for full-disk encryption, boot directly from kernel EFI Stub, hibernation, and per-user encryption.
Plant Honeytokens to Detect Intrusions
Plant decoy credentials, configs, and URLs to surface an attack the rest of your stack might miss. Deployment scenarios include MCP server entries, AWS API keys, and Cloudflare Workers serving fake…
Cloud Skills Are Still Just Skills
I A/B tested /ultrareview against my own pr-review skill. The ultra features add a verification step. That's it. The opacity is the product, not the skill.
Profiling Swift Applications on Windows with WPR and WPA
As a follow-up to my post about using Tracy as an instrumentation profiler for Swift apps on Windows, here’s a write-up of my experience with the Windows-native performance tools, Windows Performance…
Removing Apache log noise
I noticed one of my sites was running slow. So I logged in and saw that my server load was climbing. Being a webserver the first place to look are the serverlogs. With a quick tail -f in the…
ClipboardMonitor 2.0 Released
I originally started ClipboardMonitor because I was curious about a fairly narrow question: what actually happens between copying text in a browser and pasting it into privileged Windows surfaces?…
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