2026-07-07
I have one project that I treat with particular care. Fifteen years ago I built a news portal for a small town — a typical regional site that ran faithfully for several years, published news, and slowly accumulated …
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When Static Routing Isn’t Enough In most home networks, routing is simple: all traffic is sent through a single ISP. In such cases, static routing is sufficient. But what if you have a complex network with multiple …
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There is a persistent illusion that an engineer’s work begins where the code appears. In practice it’s the opposite: the most expensive part of the work happens before the first line is written.
Recently …
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In a world where data volume grows faster than GPU prices, the question “Where to store files?” becomes critical. Google Drive and iCloud are convenient but expensive and not unlimited. External hard drives …
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What is Tailscale? Tailscale is a VPN service that positions itself as a Zero-config VPN. It uses the WireGuard protocol to create a secure mesh network between all your devices. The key difference from other solutions …
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A few days ago I investigated a compromise of a production server. Not theoretical — a real one, with a Monero miner, a C2 agent and a backdoor. The attack was fully automated. No one was specifically hunting this server …
Read more2026-05-26
Most people use n8n to move data from one place to another — a webhook arrives, create a task, a form is filled out, send it to the CRM. It’s useful, no doubt, but it’s a bit like using a good knife only to …
Read more2026-05-16
When you have one server — you SSH in and do what’s needed. When there are ten — you write bash scripts. When there are more than three hundred — either you automate everything completely, or the infrastructure manages …
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Automatic call minutes: from recording to a structured document Distributed teams spend a lot of time on calls. They discuss tasks, make decisions, assign actions — and all of it dissipates into the air as soon as the …
Read more2026-04-09
Every streamer has encountered “dropped frames”. Often the problem isn’t a weak PC, but that the home network doesn’t know which traffic is more important. If someone in the next room starts …
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