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A Stranger Scanned My Server for Three Days, Here Is What I Fixed

Your public server is being probed right now. The hardening checklist I run on every machine, SSH keys and firewalls and CrowdSec and non-root containers, in the order I apply it, before something else finds the gap first.

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My Server Stopped Keeping Passwords in Plain Text Files

Infisical is an open-source secrets manager you can self-host. Centralized secrets with environments, versioning, audit logs and a CLI that injects them at runtime, so .env files stop living on your disk and in your git history.

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One Login Now Opens Every Service I Run

Authentik is a self-hosted identity provider that puts single sign-on, MFA and central user management in front of your whole stack. One strong password and one MFA prompt instead of twenty weak ones.

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I Replaced Gmail with My Own Email Server (And Survived)

Setting up a mail server is terrifying. You will mess up DNS. You will land in spam folders. And then it will work and you will feel unstoppable.

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Docker Deep Dive: Networks, Volumes, and Compose Tricks I Wish I Knew Sooner

I used Docker for two years before I understood networks. Do not be me.

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