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Noah Bailey

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Kubernetes is our generation's Asbestos.

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70 from 15 Sep 2018 to 1 Jul 2026
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2026 7

  1. The People against Scalability
  2. There's so much to do
  3. How to turn anything into a router
  4. Letters to my MP: Age Verification
  5. Deploy to Cloudfront from GitHub using OpenID Connect
  6. Data was the new oil; now AI is the new plastic
  7. Backup Postgres databases with Kubernetes CronJobs

2025 6

  1. The spelling error made 200 billion times a day
  2. Restarting Kubernetes pods using a CronJob
  3. You've just bought a new domain. Now what?
  4. On Building Pyramids
  5. Who Sawed My Motherboard???
  6. Linux on the P8 Aliexpress Mini Laptop

2024 1

  1. Recovering Mysql/Mariadb after a nasty crash

2023 5

  1. Using EXIF data to pick my next lens
  2. Converting and developing RAW photos on Linux automatically
  3. Thank you, 2016 iPhone
  4. Don't Make It Work
  5. Self-hosted Surveillance with ZoneMinder

2022 7

  1. Backups, Monitoring, and Security for small Mastodon servers
  2. Block web scanners with ipset & iptables
  3. Executing commands over SSH with GitHub Actions
  4. Debian Sid on encrypted ZFS
  5. Protect your dangerously insecure redis server
  6. Debian: the luxurious boring lifestyle
  7. Monitor radiation with a Raspberry Pi

2021 12

  1. Simple Linux server alerts: Know your performance, errors, security, syslog, and security
  2. NUC crashes on debian 11 - How I fixed it
  3. Basic Linux server security with fail2ban, ossec, and firewall
  4. Windows 11 will create heaps of needless trash
  5. Your Car Has Two Steering Wheels
  6. Castles, alligators, machine guns, and mail
  7. The billion dollar hotdog stand
  8. Domesticated Kubernetes Networking
  9. The Cursed Certificate
  10. Our mostly disposable and entirely stupid world
  11. Trying out OpenBSD (as a Linux geek)
  12. Making VoIP Calls with Antique Rotary Phones

2020 17

  1. Monitoring WAN speed with speedtest-cli and ElasticSearch
  2. Monitoring WAN latency with InfluxDB
  3. The Zeroshell botnet returns
  4. Installing Gentoo on a vintage Thinkpad T60
  5. Malware emails 2: Russian boogaloo
  6. TP-Link Device Weirdness
  7. ElasticSearch broke all my nice things (a story of cascading failure)
  8. A New Botnet is Targeting Network Infrastructure
  9. Malware on the Wire: Monitoring Network Traffic with Suricata and ClamAV
  10. Cloud Threat Protection with OSSEC and Suricata
  11. Encrypted LVM/LUKS Linux Install
  12. SSH Agent as Systemd User-Service
  13. Malware Emails From Jerks
  14. Surviving the Apocalypse with an Offline Wikipedia Server
  15. Being Attacked by Bots
  16. Linux Router, Firewall and IDS Appliance
  17. You Probably Don't Need a VPN

2019 7

  1. Fix an Oversharded Elasticsearch Cluster
  2. Automating KVM Virtualization
  3. Update all your linux servers as fast as possible
  4. Cleanup Systemd Journald Storage
  5. Stop Putting Your SSH Keys on Github!
  6. Clustering KVM with Ceph Storage
  7. Stealing Windows Sessions

2018 8

  1. FreeRadius Active Directory Integration
  2. Retrieving WPA2 Keys on Windows
  3. Deploy MDT Litetouch on Linux with TFTPD and Syslinux
  4. Generating MSI transform files with Orca
  5. The Inflatable Dinghy
  6. Generating Cisco IOS config files with Python
  7. Homebrew SAN
  8. Getting Cloudy