Posts
All the articles I've posted.
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Prompts for Image Generation in Stable Diffusion
Write Stable Diffusion prompts that actually work — style keywords, negative prompts, weights, and the patterns that get consistent results.
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DevOps Tools: Ansible vs. Puppet vs. Salt vs. Chef
Ansible, Puppet, Salt, and Chef all do configuration management — but they're very different. Pick the right one before you commit.
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Prompt Engineering for Generative AI 101
Write prompts that get useful results — role prompting, few-shot examples, chain-of-thought, and the patterns that work across any LLM.
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Optimizing Ansible for Faster Playbook Execution
Speed up Ansible playbooks with pipelining, forks, fact caching, and async tasks — stop watching the spinning wheel on every play.
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How to securely deploy Cloudflare Tunnels
Cloudflare Tunnels expose local services to the internet without open ports — secure setup with zero-trust access controls.
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Uptime Monitoring with Uptime Kuma
Uptime Kuma monitors your services and sends alerts when they go down — beautiful self-hosted alternative to UptimeRobot.
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Understanding and Optimizing Performance in Proxmox VE
Squeeze more out of Proxmox VE — CPU pinning, memory ballooning, IO threads, virtio drivers, and storage tuning for faster VMs.
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Advanced UFW Techniques: Enhancing Firewall Security
Go beyond basic UFW rules — rate limiting, geo-blocking, application profiles, logging, and before.rules tricks for serious firewall hardening.
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Automating Docker via Ansible
Automate Docker container deployment with shell scripts, cron, and Ansible — stop SSHing in and restarting things by hand.
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UFW Basics: Setting Up Your Linux Firewall
UFW makes iptables manageable — allow and deny rules, app profiles, default policies, and the 5-minute setup for any new Linux server.
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LVM The Linux Sysadmin’s Guide to Flexible Storage
LVM lets you resize volumes, add disks, and take snapshots without repartitioning — PVs, VGs, and LVs explained with real commands.
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Observability and Monitoring for Containers
Logs, metrics, and traces for Docker containers — Prometheus, Loki, Grafana, and OpenTelemetry to know what's happening inside your stack.
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