scheatkode's lair

The modern web is choking on its own exhaust.

Have you ever encountered an instance where you were setting up your Debian instance – or any other distribution for that matter – and this comes up?

There comes an unavoidable time where you're asked to troubleshoot some misbehaving graphical binary on a shared remote server and, being the paranoid sysadmin you are, you won't simply accept another user's credentials.

The Open Systems Interconnection model is a conceptual model1 created by the International Organization of Standardization and defined in ISO/IEC 7498-1; it enables diverse communication systems to use standard protocols to interconnect.

I'm not sure what they teach in university these days, but I've had many a junior who knows nothing about this.

Ever wanted to get a computer's hostname?

I hate dealing with Microslop's "SQL"1 server with a passion.

People spend the vast majority of their time interacting with other systems, environments, and objects.

The principle of least astonishment – also known as the principle of least surprise – states that a system, interface, or software component should behave in a way that aligns with a user's pre-existing knowledge, intuition, and common sense.

In Emacs Lisp, a Property List is a flat list used to store paired data.

Easing functions denote mathematical formulas that describe the rate at which a numerical value changes.

Docker is a set of products that uses operating system-level virtualization to deliver software in packages called containers.

Docker's default logging is shit.

Before opening a single source file in a new or legacy codebase, use the commit history as a diagnostic tool.

Git is a distributed version control software system that is capable of managing versions of source code or data.

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