Your website is live. But who’s responsible for its maintenance and security?
Who maintains and secures your website? About updates, spam, hacked websites, backups and the agreements with your hosting provider and web developer.
Blog
Technical posts about k3s, homelab, MikroTik, PHP and indie hacking.
A ‘For Sale’ sign on your property: RFC 10023
With RFC 10023, you can use DNS TXT records under _for-sale to place a ‘for sale’ sign on your domain name, which is readable by people, dig and AI agents.
MikroTik updated after MikroTrick? Also check for ‘flagged’ in RouterOS
Has MikroTik been updated following MikroTrick? Check the ‘flagged’ status in RouterOS, find out what ‘flagged: yes’ means, and discover what steps you need to take in the event of a potential compromise.
Back to basics
Why, after three months of using Niri, I went back to basics with Sway. On scrolling tiling, three monitors, and why predictably boring sometimes just works better.
What I Discovered About Myself was something I hadn’t expected, until everything fell into place
Sometimes you come across something that isn’t necessarily new, but which puts into words how you’ve always been
SSHFS: mounting remote files as a local folder
With SSHFS, you can mount a remote folder via SSH as a local drive. No extra ports, no FTP — just SSH. Works on macOS, Ubuntu, Arch and Fedora.
WooCommerce plugin: automatically rotate featured products every day
Auto-Featured Products is a free WooCommerce plugin that automatically highlights 10 products every day and removes the previous day’s selection. No coding required; includes WP-CLI support.
Controlling Gerootte Toon remotely — port forwarding or VPN
How to control a rooted Toon thermostat remotely via port forwarding or a VPN. Includes steps for mobile login, firewall settings and security advice.
Automatically add TransIP renewal dates to Apple Calendar
DomainReminder retrieves all renewal dates via the TransIP API and automatically adds them as reminders in Apple Calendar — 14 days before the expiry date.
Setting up a simple address book using MySQL and Bash
How to set up a simple address book database using MySQL or MariaDB and a few Bash scripts. Runs on a Synology NAS, a local server or any other MariaDB instance.