2026-01-12
Write a Dockerfile simply: FROM node, COPY ., CMD run. It works, and for local tests this is often enough. But when such an image reaches CI/CD or, God forbid, production, problems begin: builds take forever, the image …
Read more2026-01-02
OpenVPN is a reliable and time-tested VPN protocol that allows organizing secure remote access to a local network. MikroTik RouterOS supports OpenVPN in server mode starting from version 6.x (TCP), and from version 7+ — …
Read more2025-12-31
If you do self-hosting, run a home lab, or manage a small VPS, you’re probably familiar with Portainer. It’s the de-facto standard: a powerful, all-encompassing “Swiss Army knife” for Docker.
But …
Read more2025-12-30
When working on real projects (CDN change, migration, refactor) you often need to bulk-replace one URL with another.
At first glance the task seems trivial: sed -i 's|old|new|g' **/* — and done.
In reality that approach …
Read more2025-12-25
Jitsi Meet works out of the box very well for video conferencing. The Jitsi Meet + Jibri bundle allows you to record meetings — and many installations stop there.
But as soon as Jitsi is used not occasionally, but as …
Read more2025-12-24
Mikrotik routers are rightly valued by system administrators for their incredible flexibility.
A unique feature of this hardware is that a budget home hAP lite and a powerful enterprise router costing thousands of …
Read more2025-12-23
Over the last ten years the web application deployment industry has evolved from FTP scripts and rsync to highly complex orchestration systems. Today developers and small teams increasingly face a difficult choice: …
Read more2025-12-04
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 …
Read more2025-11-28
If I were sent to a deserted digital island and allowed to take only one networking utility — I would unhesitatingly choose Netcat.
The official documentation (man nc) dryly states: “a utility for reading from and …
Read more2025-11-27
If your business works with users from Russia, the question of where personal data is stored concerns you directly. Phones, names, email addresses, form submissions, employee data — all of this falls under strict …
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