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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...

🥷 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...

WP2Shell, an Unpatched Docker Image, and the Night Claude Fixed My Nginx Config Without Being Asked 🐚

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WP2Shell, an Unpatched Docker Image, and the Night Claude Fixed My Nginx Config Without Being Asked 🐚

raphael 20. July 2026

I stumbled across this article — fair warning, it’s in German, apparently the anglophone tech press...

Building a Homelab NAS with OpenZFS, Samba, Jenkins & GitLab — Fully Automated with Ansible

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Building a Homelab NAS with OpenZFS, Samba, Jenkins & GitLab — Fully Automated with Ansible

raphael 29. June 2026

📦 What was supposed to be a quick “let me set up a NAS this weekend” turned...

🔒 GitHub Repo Update: Migrating from iptables to nftables — A Packet Filter Deep Dive

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🔒 GitHub Repo Update: Migrating from iptables to nftables — A Packet Filter Deep Dive

raphael 16. June 2026

Quick repo update: the www_k3s GitHub repo just got a significant firewall overhaul. The old setup used...

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