Software engineer, homelab tinkerer, occasional essayist. Writing about code, infrastructure, and the systems — technical and human — that shape how things work.
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If you’re running SQLite in WAL mode on a network filesystem (NFS, SMB), you’re going to have a bad time. WAL requires shared-memory primitives (mmap) that don’t work correctly over network mounts. The database will silently corrupt.
Local disk or bust. This is documented but easy to miss when you’re mounting a NAS volume into a container.
Key CSS for monospace fonts at display sizes: letter-spacing: -0.03em and word-spacing: -0.05em. Without this, monospace headings look loose and gappy because the characters are all the same width — wide letters like m and w don’t compensate for narrow ones like i and l.
Geist Mono handles this better than most because it was designed for UI contexts, not just code.
tailscale debug acl lets you test ACL rules locally before pushing to the admin console. Saved me from a lockout situation where I accidentally denied my own SSH access.
Always test ACLs against a {"src": "your-machine", "dst": "your-machine:22"} case before applying.
Hi, Hello. This is an example note feature included with Astro Cactus.
They’re for shorter, concise “post’s” that you’d like to share, they generally don’t include headings, but hey, that’s entirely up to you.