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The Ansible Tour, Part 3: The Blog – WordPress, MariaDB and Redis on K3s, Role by Role

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The Ansible Tour, Part 3: The Blog – WordPress, MariaDB and Redis on K3s, Role by Role

raphael 16. October 2026

Part 3 of the Ansible Tour: why each piece of the blog exists, how it is deployed...

A+ on SSL Labs: What My Blog’s TLS Actually Speaks (and Where the Ansible Code Lives)

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A+ on SSL Labs: What My Blog’s TLS Actually Speaks (and Where the Ansible Code Lives)

raphael 6. October 2026

☝️ A quick word for everyone who just wanted to read a blog post: TLS is the...

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...

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