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It's that time of the year again: time to look back at how I work, the tools I use, and how the next year might look.

GPU Passthrough has become a great way to run a Linux host, but still run games under Windows.

NFS is a great protocol for sharing files quickly and simply over the network.

You should back up your data, properly!

Black Friday, the only day which seems to last over a month, is a great time to buy tech.

People say there's no 100% reliable way to wipe a storage drive, and they're right.

I recently added some RGB LED strips around my headboard and bed frame, because everyone needs more RGB in their life.

This year's Hacktoberfest was a little different, mostly in quite how much the internet gave a fuss about it.

Recently, I started setting up a new application on my docker host.

I recently had a far from fun morning.

The internet is a wild place, filled with well, everything.

After recently deploying a ZFS pool, I realized I had little insight into the health of my drives.

I've been using Traefik for a while now, and I've helped quite a few people with it, but I still see a lot of people scared off it.

Traefik's dashboard is a great tool to diagnose routing issues, and check services are being detected correctly, but it can't do much more than that.

ZFS is a pretty sweet filesystem, an opinion shared by the majority of the internet it seems.

Clickhouse is a column oriented database engine, mostly designed for analytics.

Recently, I bought myself a new server from Kimsufi, to function as an off-site backup server.

Docker containers, and containers as a whole, are really just a regular program wrapped in some extra protections provided by the kernel (namely cgroups etc) to create isolation, and other interesting features.

The majority of England (where I live) is being hit by quite a heatwave.

I only recently talked about using GoAccess as an analytics tool.

Last year, I switched all of my hosting from arbitrarily installed packages to Docker.

Django already does some pretty incredible things when it comes to performance, especially in the ORM layer.

I write quite a lot.

Storing passwords is a pretty simple problem in software development, right?

Duplicati is one of my favourite backup system.

Traefik is a cloud native reverse proxy, which is basically a fancy way of saying it's a reverse proxy with some fancy features.

In the current lockdown situation, a lot of people are starting to eye up that old desktop machine, or Raspberry Pi they bought for a project and just left on a shelf, and thinking of putting it to use, as a server!

As a part of Nextcloud 17, Nextcloud released Text, a fancy new WYSIWYG editor for markdown with support for collaboration.

A few days ago, I was sharing a blog post to someone on the self-hosted podcast discord, and they asked if I was self-hosting my website.

Recently, I decided to put some analytics on my website.

Last year, I wrote a post on setting up a gateway to a private network, powered by OpenVPN-AS.

What is WireGuard?

When disabling a user account on a Linux box, it is good practice to also change the shell to something which, well, isn't a shell.

This year marks the 3rd year of my pattern for publishing a "My Stack" post, noting down how I get work done both professionally and personally (2018 / 2017).

Yesterday, an email was sent to django-announce, informing of an upcoming security update, labelled "high" severity.

This is year number three of my participation in Hacktoberfest, the initiative from DigitalOcean, and new this year, Dev.to.

For the last four years, I've been spending every working day off a Dell Optiplex.

WireGuard is taking the VPN world by storm, coming very close to the current champion OpenVPN in simple, small-scale deployments.

I've been an arch user for many years, and a linux user for even longer, but I've never installed arch from scratch.

I've been an Antergos user for almost three years, and I love it!

Spoiling films is something which has plagued people since forever.

Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) teaches that classes can have two kinds of attributes: Instance and Static.

April marks the release of Django 2.2, the latest LTS version of the popular Python web framework.

Around 10 years ago, Facebook was everything.

Last year, I wrote My stack 2017, and now it's time for a follow-up.

Hacktoberfest is a great initiative created by DigitalOcean and GitHub to get more developers contributing to open-source projects.

In terms of security, WordPress, and PHP in general for that matter, have become a bit of a joke.

VPNs are a way of accessing application which sit on a separate network using an encrypted tunnel.

I've been using KeePassXC since not long after it's initial split from KeePassX in late 2016.

Bluetooth audio is great!