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10 years of Home Assistant: my favorite software

10 years of Home Assistant: my favorite software

Ten years of Home Assistant, why it's my favorite software and what my setup looks like.

Read More April 1, 2026
Implementing AI in your application

Implementing AI in your application

Lessons learned from implementing an AI feature in Metric Moose

Read More January 24, 2026
Giving structure to your Kubernetes configuration

Giving structure to your Kubernetes configuration

Best practices for giving structure to your Kubernetes configuration

Read More March 28, 2022
Monitor business KPIs using the OpenMetrics standard

Monitor business KPIs using the OpenMetrics standard

Visualizing the important business KPIs in one dashboard by using an open standard and open source software

Read More February 27, 2022
How to make a load testing plan

How to make a load testing plan

A practical guide to creating a load testing plan for your web application, covering test scenarios, concurrent user calculations, and result analysis.

Read More September 21, 2021
Checklist: Prepare your website for Go-Live

Checklist: Prepare your website for Go-Live

A comprehensive go-live checklist covering DNS, SSL, SEO, testing, monitoring, backups, caching, and security to ensure a smooth website launch.

Read More September 10, 2021
The key components of Kubernetes autoscaling

The key components of Kubernetes autoscaling

Explore the four key components of Kubernetes autoscaling: Resource Requests, Pod Disruption Budgets, Horizontal Pod Autoscaler, and Cluster Autoscaler.

Read More September 5, 2021
Create a DB backup from a pod running MySQL on Kubernetes

Create a DB backup from a pod running MySQL on Kubernetes

A single kubectl command to create a MySQL database dump directly from a Kubernetes pod, using the container's environment variables for credentials.

Read More August 21, 2021
Doing maintenance & debugging on Kubernetes with a support pod

Doing maintenance & debugging on Kubernetes with a support pod

Using a support pod is a simple and secure way to take a look around from within the Kubernetes cluster without interfering with the workload or expose a security risk.

Read More August 21, 2021
Connect a relay board to your Raspberry Pi

Connect a relay board to your Raspberry Pi

Learn how to wire an 8-channel relay board to a Raspberry Pi using GPIO pins and control it with WiringPi to switch lights and other electronics.

Read More August 25, 2014
Quickly add a cachebuster to @import statements

Quickly add a cachebuster to @import statements

A CLI one-liner to automatically add a cache-busting query string to CSS @import statements, ensuring browsers always load the latest stylesheet versions.

Read More August 16, 2014

PHP 5.5.13 breaks backwards compatibility

PHP 5.5.13 introduced a backwards compatibility break affecting PHPUnit, Mockery, Doctrine, and Symfony. Here's what happened and when it was fixed.

Read More June 17, 2014
Caching WordPress with Nginx

Caching WordPress with Nginx

Speed up WordPress on a small VPS by configuring Nginx to cache PHP-FPM responses for up to a week, with smart exceptions for logged-in users.

Read More June 2, 2014
Debugging Varnish requests with varnishncsa

Debugging Varnish requests with varnishncsa

Use varnishncsa with a custom format string to log response times and cache hit/miss status, making it easy to spot backend bottlenecks.

Read More June 2, 2014
Using Logstash, Elasticsearch and Kibana to get insight in my spending

Using Logstash, Elasticsearch and Kibana to get insight in my spending

A weekend project using the ELK stack — Logstash, Elasticsearch, and Kibana — to import bank transactions and visualize spending patterns.

Read More March 2, 2014