Why I moved my backups to erasure coding
RAID never quite sat right with me once the array grew past a few disks. Here's what changed after switching to a Reed-Solomon based layout, and what I'd do differently.
Continue reading →Notes to self, published anyway
Mostly backend engineering, homelab tinkering, and the occasional rant about tooling.
A smaller config for a smaller VPS
Trimming a systemd unit down to something that actually fits a 512MB box. Notes on cgroup limits, swap, and why I stopped fighting the OOM killer.
Continue reading →Reading other people's cron jobs
Spent a weekend going through old crontabs from a decommissioned server. A short field guide to the archaeology of forgotten scripts.
Continue reading →Slow is a feature
A short note on deliberately rate-limiting my own tools so I stop reaching for them out of habit.
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