Botmonster Tech
Master scripted tmux sessions with plugins and persistence. Automate layouts, survive reboots, and recreate complex terminal environments instantly.
Self-Hosting
How to run your own servers, Docker stacks, and self-hosted services without losing weekends to config files.
Production Docker with Traefik v3.6: auto TLS, 30K RPS
Run Traefik v3 as a reverse proxy with Docker Compose. Automatic Let's Encrypt certificates, label-based routing, and security middleware on one VPS.
Wildcard SSL certificates with Let's Encrypt and DNS-01
Wildcard SSL certs from Let's Encrypt use DNS-01 or the new DNS-PERSIST-01 challenge. Certbot and acme.sh automate it, systemd timers renew it.
Manage your dev environment with Nix shells (no Docker required)
Use Nix flakes and direnv for project-scoped dev environments without Docker. Define toolchains in flake.nix, share them, switch projects instantly.
Podman vs Docker for self-hosting, measured on my machine
Podman vs Docker for self-hosting, tested on my own machine: startup is a tie, rootless pasta won every throughput run, and dockerd idles at 144 MB.
Btrfs vs ZFS: which filesystem protects your data better?
Compare Btrfs and ZFS for data protection: checksumming, RAID, snapshots, compression, and speed. ZFS for NAS, Btrfs for single-disk desktops.