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Every server I deploy gets brute-force attempted within hours. SSH, HTTP auth, FTP, doesn't matter. The internet is full of bots scanning entire IP ranges 24/7 and they will find you. fail2ban is the lazy dev's answer to this. It reads your logs, spots repeated
I keep seeing people overcomplicate their firewall setup with fancy wrappers and GUI tools. iptables is not that hard, and understanding it directly saves you when those wrappers break ( because they always do at the worst time ). Here's how I set up iptables on every new server. The
I moved to Uruguay in 2019 and one of the first things that hit me was the food. Coming from Italy, I thought I knew everything about pasta, bread and proper coffee. Then I landed in Montevideo and realised that these people take their meat even more seriously than we
I spend way too much time typing long docker commands. Every time I need to rebuild a container, I end up scrolling through my bash history trying to find that one command with the right flags. Last week I got tired of it and decided to move all my docker
Every side project I've ever shipped has a Makefile. Not because I'm nostalgic or some kind of Unix purist — because after ten years of trying every alternative, Make is still the one that works without surprising me. I've used npm scripts, rake, just, task,
I've spent the better part of a decade staring at broken code, confused logs, and systems that worked yesterday but don't today. After a while, you stop throwing darts and start developing actual mental models — patterns of thinking that consistently get you closer to the bug.
For years, my relationship with regular expressions went something like this: encounter a regex I needed, Google it, copy it from Stack Overflow, test it once, and move on. If it broke, I'd Google a new one. I treated regex like incantations — mysterious symbols that somehow worked, as
I wrote a post back in 2017 about updating SSH to version 7.5p1. Seven years and countless servers later, SSH is still the tool I use more than anything else — and I've learned a lot of tricks that save me time every single day. Most of them
I have a problem. Every time I come back from shooting — whether it's the coast at La Paloma, the streets of Montevideo, or drone footage over the countryside — I end up with hundreds of photos across two cameras and an SD card that desperately needs formatting. For years,
I set up my first Ghost blog in 2016, on a VPS I'd barely configured, with an SSL certificate I'd manually generated using Let's Encrypt DNS validation. It was janky, it broke constantly, and I loved it. Eight years and one CVE-induced admin key