| 2026-05-10 |
Logwatch Fleet Setup — Surviving Package Upgrades — added "Per-host config drift on cloud-image-derived servers" section: Packer-leftover myhostname, empty relayhost forcing public-MX path, stale SASL passwd maps from prior relays |
Self-Hosting |
| 2026-05-10 |
Patching PHP 8.4 Implicit-Nullable Deprecations in Vendor Packages — generalized from a Castopod/UuidModel incident; covers the substring-match gotcha that turns a 30-second fix into a 30-minute one |
Troubleshooting |
| 2026-05-10 |
Logwatch Fleet Setup — Surviving Package Upgrades — added Fedora CA bundle missing diagnosis, journald-vs-mail.log methodology note, and bounce-source-must-be-real-mailbox section |
Self-Hosting |
| 2026-05-10 |
ClamAV Fleet Deployment with Ansible — added DigitalOcean monitoring caveat for 1vCPU droplets (with follow-up note: per-droplet relaxed alert can still trip; accept-the-page decision) |
Self-Hosting |
| 2026-05-10 |
Claude Desktop MCP Mass-Disconnect After Blocking SSH Reboot |
Troubleshooting |
| 2026-05-10 |
Castopod Posts Don't Appear on Mastodon — Diagnosing the Federation Path |
Troubleshooting |
| 2026-05-08 |
Castopod: Stale Federated Avatar URLs After Remote Profile Updates |
Troubleshooting |
| 2026-05-08 |
Tuning Netdata web_log_1m_successful for Redirect-Heavy WordPress Sites |
Troubleshooting |
| 2026-05-07 |
Mastodon — The --prune-profiles Trap and How to Recover |
Self-Hosting |
| 2026-05-02 |
WSL2 Backup via PowerShell Scheduled Task |
Linux |
| 2026-05-02 |
SSH Config and Key Management |
Linux |
| 2026-05-02 |
Wake-on-LAN via Router SSH |
Self-Hosting |
| 2026-05-02 |
Tuning Netdata Docker Health Alarms to Prevent Update Flapping |
Self-Hosting |
| 2026-05-02 |
ClamAV Fleet Deployment with Ansible |
Self-Hosting |
| 2026-05-02 |
Fail2Ban Digest Mode — Fleet-Wide Quiet Alerts |
Self-Hosting |
| 2026-05-02 |
Mastodon Instance Tuning |
Self-Hosting |
| 2026-05-02 |
Ansible Check Mode False Positives in Verify/Assert Tasks |
Troubleshooting |
| 2026-05-02 |
ISP SNI Filtering & Caddy Troubleshooting |
Troubleshooting |
| 2026-05-02 |
Windows OpenSSH: WSL as Default Shell Breaks Remote Commands |
Troubleshooting |
| 2026-05-02 |
Windows OpenSSH Server (sshd) Stops After Reboot |
Troubleshooting |
| 2026-05-02 |
yt-dlp YouTube JS Challenge Fix (Fedora) |
Troubleshooting |
| 2026-04-30 |
wp-fail2ban Plugin Logpath on Debian/Ubuntu (auth.log, not syslog) |
Self-Hosting |
| 2026-04-30 |
LoRA adapter — GGUF conversion fails with 'config.json not found |
Troubleshooting |
| 2026-04-29 |
iOS Tailscale Clients Report HostName="localhost" — Breaks /etc/hosts Generators |
Troubleshooting |
| 2026-04-29 |
Python smtplib: Missing Date/Message-ID Headers Break Mail Clients |
Troubleshooting |
| 2026-04-28 |
Ubuntu dist-upgrade Quarantines Third-Party Repos |
Troubleshooting |
| 2026-04-26 |
Fantastical MCP Server: Permission Denied on Launch (macOS Quarantine) |
Troubleshooting |
| 2026-04-25 |
rsync over Tailscale: Hung in TCP Teardown After Transfer Completes |
Troubleshooting |
| 2026-04-25 |
Ollama: ollama run with Piped Stdin Bypasses Chat Template + SYSTEM Prompt |
Troubleshooting |
| 2026-04-24 |
Fantastical Google Sync Error Flood — Phantom Calendars Fixed via syncselect |
Troubleshooting |
| 2026-04-23 |
Pi-hole DoH / DoT Bypass Defense |
Self-Hosting |
| 2026-04-22 |
Pi-hole v6 Adlist Management via SQL |
Self-Hosting |
| 2026-04-22 |
Pi-hole v6 Group Management: Per-Client DNS Rules |
Self-Hosting |
| 2026-04-22 |
Mastodon DB Maintenance — Statuses, Accounts, and VACUUM |
Self-Hosting |
| 2026-04-22 |
Mastodon Federation — Domain Blocks, Silencing, and FediSeer |
Self-Hosting |
| 2026-04-22 |
Pi-hole AI Blocklist Blocks Claude Desktop (ERR_CONNECTION_REFUSED) |
Troubleshooting |
| 2026-04-21 |
Ansible Fails with Permission Denied While ssh <alias> Works (Host Alias Bypass) |
Troubleshooting |
| 2026-04-20 |
Claude Code Remote Control — Mobile Access to a Persistent Host Session |
Self-Hosting |
| 2026-04-19 |
AWS S3 Cost Management |
Self-Hosting |
