Feb 7, 2026 · 14 min read
Self-hosting SimpleLogin: own your email aliases for $3 a month
How to self-host SimpleLogin with Docker, Postfix and Brevo on a $3/month VPS. DNS, reply-from-alias, and the TLS gotcha that ate two hours of my Sunday.
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Dec 31, 2025 · 3 min read
Access denied: when your browser extensions look like attack vectors
Tried booking a flight. Got blocked. Turns out Akamai thinks my 21 security extensions make me look like a hacker. They're not wrong.
Nov 19, 2025 · 7 min read
VictoriaLogs vs Loki: real-world benchmarking results
VictoriaLogs vs Loki, benchmarked on 500 GB of logs over 7 days on identical nodes: 94% lower query latency, 37% less storage, under half the CPU and RAM.
Oct 24, 2025 · 3 min read
When Netlify killed my free tier: a 15-minute migration to Dokploy
Netlify suspended five free-tier sites of mine one Tuesday night. The 15-minute migration to Dokploy on a €3/month VPS that bought everything back.
Oct 14, 2025 · 8 min read
How I took down 30% of production with one TLS fingerprinting rule
Deployed a TLS fingerprinting rule that seemed reasonable. Blocked every Chrome 119 user on Windows. The incident report was not fun to write.
Jan 12, 2025 · 2 min read
My watchlist: from 70s basements to Victorian crime scenes
What I rewatch when the day's debugging is done: That 70's Show, Arrested Development, HIMYM, and the detective canon from Holmes to Poirot.
Dec 20, 2024 · 7 min read
GitHub Actions vs GitLab CI: a practical comparison
GitHub Actions vs GitLab CI after two years running both across 50 microservices: build times, free-tier minutes, Docker support, debugging, and which to…
Dec 18, 2024 · 7 min read
Prometheus and Grafana: from zero to production monitoring
A practical guide to setting up Prometheus and Grafana for production monitoring. No theory, just battle-tested configurations that work.
Dec 15, 2024 · 5 min read
Five Kubernetes debugging tricks that saved my production
Five Kubernetes debugging tricks from real 3 AM pages: kubectl logs --previous, ephemeral debug containers, scheduler events, and fixes that saved…
Dec 10, 2024 · 11 min read
Docker security: stop running everything as root
Your containers are probably insecure. Here's how I learned to harden Docker containers the hard way, and the security mistakes that almost cost us.