Engineering

Learn how to automatically share your latest blog posts to Mastodon, Twitter/X, and other social networks using GitHub Actions and the crosspost tool. A simple way to regain traffic lost to search engines and AI.

This guide explains how to split a mono-repo into smaller repositories, keeping the git history for selected files.

Learn how to benchmark Docker registry performance using the Hyperfine CLI tool. A simple way to compare image pull speeds between registries like Artifactory, Harbor, Docker Hub, and Quay.

Learn how to automatically delete old Cloudflare Pages deployments using a Bash script and the Cloudflare API. Keep your account clean and reduce clutter by removing outdated deployments.

Learn how to resolve the “Hotkeys unavailable - Another app has enabled secure keyboard input” issue in iTerm2 on macOS Sequoia 15.5 by adjusting Input Monitoring settings.

Learn about the optimal UEFI BIOS settings for the Asus TUF Gaming Z790-Plus WIFI motherboard, including configurations for RAM, power management, virtualization, and more.

Learn how to recover data from a failing NVMe drive using ddrescue on Linux. This guide covers step-by-step backup instructions, handling read errors, and restoring your files safely.

Learn how to resolve the “ata1.00: failed command: READ FPDMA QUEUED” error on Ubuntu by adjusting SATA power management settings.

Why even consider templating Dockerfiles? Dockerfiles revolutionized the industry with their simplicity. Each instruction creates a new layer in the image, which is automatically cached. This process integrates well with SCM, where you “commit” the results of one stage and move forward with other changes. The process can be easily parameterized with ARG instructions, similar to ENV but provided during the build. This allows for creating highly flexible builds. For most users, this is more than sufficient. However, there’s a notable exception: Docker base images. ...

A Guide to using git pull --rebase effectively Using git pull --rebase as your default merge strategy offers several benefits, particularly in maintaining a clean and linear commit history, which can simplify collaboration and code review. However, you may occasionally encounter the error “Cannot rebase onto multiple branches”. This article explains why this happens and provides a solution to make git pull --rebase work seamlessly. Benefits of git pull --rebase Linear History: Rebasing applies your local commits on top of the upstream changes, creating a straight line of commits without unnecessary merge commits. This makes the project history easier to read and understand. ...