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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, a Fake Chrome, and a Botnet in a Trenchcoat: What My Own Access Logs Told On Me

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wp2shell, a Fake Chrome, and a Botnet in a Trenchcoat: What My Own Access Logs Told On Me

raphael 23. July 2026

A few days ago, “wp2shell” made the rounds — an unauthenticated RCE chain in WordPress, cobbled together...

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...

One Year Later: I Finally Open-Sourced My Homelab K3s Stack

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One Year Later: I Finally Open-Sourced My Homelab K3s Stack

raphael 17. May 2026

In a few of my recent posts I mentioned that I was trying to figure out how...

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