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Where ZFS Fits in Enterprise Infrastructure

September 22, 2026 • zfs, storage, infrastructure

ZFS from its Solaris roots to enterprise storage today: pools, hardware choices, recovery and repository replication, with a Proxmox breakout and a practical ZFS cheat sheet.

Eleven Servers, One Hammer, and a Serious Look at Proxmox

September 10, 2026 • proxmox, vmware, virtualization

A Broadcom upgrade conversation sent our infrastructure team looking at alternatives. Three retired servers, a graduate named Thor and a Proxmox trial have made the next renewal much more interesting.

One Jump Box, Many Users: Multi-User RDP on Ubuntu 26.04

September 3, 2026 • homelab, linux, ubuntu

Part 1 of building a hardened multi-user jump host: why the Essential Eight pushes you towards one, and how to get xrdp serving concurrent sessions on Wayland-native Ubuntu 26.04.

Twenty Years of LastPass, One Afternoon of Vaultwarden

August 28, 2026 • vaultwarden, bitwarden, passwords

I stood up an offline Vaultwarden server with Docker Compose and an nginx reverse proxy, moved the team onto it, and started planning how to feed its secrets to Ansible across a fleet of Ubuntu servers. It went well enough that LastPass should be nervous.

PowerDNS: DNS Without the Archaeology

August 13, 2026 • powerdns, poweradmin, dns

A look at PowerDNS, the excellent Poweradmin web interface, and a design for sharing centrally managed zones across several isolated security domains.

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Crafting Apps: open-source creative tools
A vibe-coded Adobe suite written in Rust, cross-platform with GPU acceleration. I am going to have to give these a try.
GPT-6 and Intelligent UI for everyone
OpenAI's announcement for GPT-6, rolling out across ChatGPT alongside what it calls Intelligent UI: responses that arrive with clickable buttons, forms and charts instead of plain text. The notable shift is the model composing an interface on the fly rather than just answering in prose.
'Jonathan' Is the Oldest Land Animal on Earth. He Could Hold the Secrets to Defying Death
404 Media visits Jonathan, the Seychelles giant tortoise who has lived on St Helena since 1882 and was already mature when he arrived, putting his age at around 190 years. The piece looks at what researchers hope a creature that has outlived every human record can tell us about longevity.
BIGWORDS.PAGE: Turn any screen into a sign
Type a message and it fills the entire screen of whatever device you point at it: phone, tablet or TV. Pitched for welcome signs, timers and Wi-Fi passwords, with no app, no account and no cost. The kind of single-purpose web tool that earns its bookmark.
Hacking This BYD Was Too Easy
Four Corners finds a passwordless way into the BYD Shark 6, then remotely plays with its lights, locks, wipers, speakers and microphone. Damn it—this was going to be my next car.
neat-annotations: Hand-drawn CSS annotations
Hand-drawn arrows and handwritten callouts for the web, all in one CSS file. No JavaScript, no build step—just a little personality for your page.
Telstra Outage: The Night a Network Decided the Year Was 2006
One bad GPS clock, one NTP timing loop, and Telstra's network thought it was 2006. Certs, DNS, time—the sysadmin trifecta strikes again, with time taking the lead.
Bonsai 2 27B
Another model for the local-AI shortlist: PrismML says ternary weights shrink Qwen3.8 27B to 5.9 GB while retaining 98.2% of its benchmark score.
My AI Agent That Loves to Talk to Scammers
Scammers have AI callers now, so Paul Nevin built an AI honeypot to keep them talking and map their playbook. Some things never change—only the tools.
fugleramme: E-Ink Bird Frame for Raspberry Pi
A Raspberry Pi identifies garden birds by sound using local AI, then displays them on e-ink as hand-cut 19th-century illustrations. Delightful.