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Servarr Apps
Updated:When it comes to grabbing media from Usenet, the Servarr apps are second to none. I've been using Sonarr and Radarr for quite some time to grab TV programs
Zombie Docker Container
A Docker container can end up stuck in Up state while actually being dead inside — docker stop and docker kill both fail with 'did not receive an exit event', and the app inside is unresponsive. Here's the root cause and a script that recovers it…
Atlassian MCP
The Atlassian MCP is a really useful addition to Claude Code, giving Claude direct access to Confluence and Jira. There is a downside though: the Confluence API can return a lot of information, so it's worth adding some rules to CLAUDE.md to keep token usage down…
Kitty Terminfo
If you've started using Kitty as your terminal emulator, you may eventually hit a particularly annoying problem when working over SSH: everything works fine as your normal user, but as soon as you sudo into another account, terminal applications start behaving strangely…
Blume
When MkDocs 2.0 Broke Material, I Took the Opportunity to Try Blume I've been using MkDocs with the Material theme for the documentation for my Novel Codex project for quite a while. It has been a good combination: Markdown files, a simple configuration file, a decent-looking documentation site, and very little to think about. Then…
Travel Router
Building a Travel Router That Doesn't Ruin Movie Night The problem This whole project exists because of one specific holiday. The accommodation's Wi-Fi died completely, for two full days. No terrestrial TV either. Two days of genuinely nothing, in the evenings, on holiday. I count it as a personal engineering achievement that I survived those…
Rotating the Console
I have a 22" monitor that it fixed next to my 32" screen in portrait mode. When using a Linux command line based system it makes reading it a challenge. On a recent build of OpenWRT I was working with I needed to stop cricking my neck to read it properly. For the HDMI console…
Hashed Known Hosts File
To set known hosts to unencrypted save in Ubuntu, you can modify your SSH configuration by editing the ~/.ssh/config file and adding the line HashKnownHosts no. This will ensure that hostnames are stored in plain text rather than hashed. Make sure to back up your existing configuration before making changes.
Nano’s Work Here is Done
You've crossed the final threshold: the moment when opening Nano feels more alien than opening Vim. And :set ff=unix removes one of those occasional reasons for reaching for something else. Add these to the mental toolkit: :set ff? " What line endings have I got? :set ff=unix " LF :set ff=dos " CRLF :set list…
11 Laws of the Universe
These aren't scientific laws, but widely-used mental models and heuristics that help explain behaviour, decision-making, management and problem solving. 1. Parkinson's Law Definition "Work expands to fill the time available for its completion." Coined by historian C. Northcote Parkinson in 1955. Meaning People naturally consume whatever time they are given. Give someone: 2 hours →…