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All your Traefik are belong to us

Run Traefik as a permanent service on your dev box. One wildcard cert, with real domains, and self-registering Docker projects. Scales to production too.

2026-06-17

Greybeards rise

How I unified my entire desktop under one vim colorscheme, iceberg, spanning terminal, prompt, i3, rofi, screensaver, and git. Consistency over aesthetics.

2026-05-19

I just wanted PHP 8.2 (Composer had other ideas)

Create a Laravel 12 project targeting PHP 8.2 while running 8.4. Composer said no. This is the docker workaround, and the permission fix that followed.

2026-04-21

Latest answers

Question: How does Debian solve converging configuration files?

Learn how to override Debian package configs without losing changes during upgrades using .d directories, ordering, and dpkg-diver

2026-06-02

Question: How to avoid killing an i3 scratchpad window

Why i3's scratchpad_state is always none in get_tree, how to find it on the floating_con parent, and a script to avoid killing scratchpad windows by mistake.

2026-05-06

Latest snippets

zsh: drop sed for regexp-replace and use zstyle to avoid hardcoding things in a script

Use zsh's built-in regexp-replace instead of sed for string substitution, and zstyle to avoid hardcoding values in your scripts and functions.

git status can now compare branches

Git now lets git status compare your current branch with both upstream and push branches using status.comparebranches, making divergence instantly visible.