Why CachyOS Became My Default Recommendation for New Linux Users
There is a long-standing paradox at the heart of the Linux community. If you ask almost any experienced systems administrator or enthusiast what their ideal distribution looks like, you’ll hear…
A Sysadmin’s Take on ks‑aur‑scanner
Hardening the AUR Without Losing Your Sanity If you’ve been running Arch or any Arch‑adjacent distro for long enough, you eventually develop a sixth sense for PKGBUILDs. You start noticing…
Ditching Termius for Termix
A More Human, More Capable, and Entirely Self‑Hosted Way to Manage Your Servers For a long time, Termius was the tool I recommended to anyone who needed a reliable SSH…
The Linux Distro Doesn’t Matter Much Any More…
And That’s Precisely Why It Still Does For decades, choosing a Linux distribution felt like a rite of passage. You picked a tribe: Debian, Arch, Fedora, Gentoo, Ubuntu. You aligned…
Warp.dev in 2026
A Terminal That Finally Treats Sysadmins Like First‑Class Citizens If you’ve been around terminals long enough, you know the drill: most of them are glorified text pipes. They render characters,…
Tailscale, Nginx Proxy Manager, Cloudflare and the Kubernetes Operator
How I built my Homelab around Tailscale Preamble/Disclaimer This post is a work in progress, I set this up about 18 months ago, and have used my notes, URLs and…
The Top 11 apps I install on all my Linux Installs
Curating Your Linux Workspace: My 11 Essential Applications As someone who uses Linux as his Daily driver and has a tendency 25 years on to still distro hop, there are…
Cloning All Repositories from Gitea Using API Authentication
Introduction Managing multiple Git repositories can become challenging, particularly when working with a self-hosted Gitea instance. This article explores the process of automating the cloning of all repositories from a…