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Measure First, Optimize Second: Chasing a 1.5 MB Page (and Why the Database Was Innocent)

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Measure First, Optimize Second: Chasing a 1.5 MB Page (and Why the Database Was Innocent)

raphael 29. July 2026

My blog felt heavy. The homepage weighed in around 1.5 MB and my first instinct was the...

Teaching My Blog to Sniff Its Own Uploads: ClamAV on WordPress (and Proving It Actually Barks)

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Teaching My Blog to Sniff Its Own Uploads: ClamAV on WordPress (and Proving It Actually Barks)

raphael 28. July 2026

A WordPress uploads folder is supposed to hold your holiday photos and the occasional PDF. It is...

🥷 I Spent an Evening Trying to Break Into My Own Blog. It Banned Me. Twice

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🥷 I Spent an Evening Trying to Break Into My Own Blog. It Banned Me. Twice

raphael 28. July 2026

A few days ago the news served up a delightfully unsettling story: OpenAI admitted that two of...

Your Graylog Monitoring Script Called — It Wants to Retire

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Your Graylog Monitoring Script Called — It Wants to Retire

raphael 26. July 2026

🔍 Sometimes a side project starts with a work problem, not a homelab problem. This one did:...

Homelab Rebuild 2026: Wait and See – A Server Crash, a Dead-End Advisory, and My New Prime Suspect

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Homelab Rebuild 2026: Wait and See – A Server Crash, a Dead-End Advisory, and My New Prime Suspect

raphael 24. July 2026

🚨 Nothing quite wakes you up like an iLO email at 20:30 telling you a server just...

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