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Five Posts and Nothing Else: Slimming Down My Front Page on Phones (and the Attribute WordPress Quietly Ate)

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Five Posts and Nothing Else: Slimming Down My Front Page on Phones (and the Attribute WordPress Quietly Ate)

raphael 8. October 2026

On phones my blog's front page showed the same five posts four times before the first real...

Germany Only: Geo-Fencing SSH with nftables and Ansible (and What My Logs Said About Bots and Readers)

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Germany Only: Geo-Fencing SSH with nftables and Ansible (and What My Logs Said About Bots and Readers)

raphael 1. October 2026

SSH on a non-standard port, key-only, fail2ban - and still 16 login attempts per hour from all...

Back From Sweden, Straight Into a CIS Benchmark Rabbit Hole

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Back From Sweden, Straight Into a CIS Benchmark Rabbit Hole

raphael 20. August 2026

🇸🇪 I’m back from Sweden. Tan: nonexistent (it’s Sweden). Mosquito bite count: illegal. Motivation to touch my...

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...

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