Tag: linux

Expose Docker's Unix socket over TCP so remote tools and dashboards can connect — daemon.json config for Linux and Windows.

Go beyond basic UFW rules — rate limiting, geo-blocking, application profiles, logging, and before.rules tricks for serious firewall hardening.

awk is perfect for parsing logs. Here are 5 patterns that handle filtering, summing, counting, splitting fields, and pretty-printing without reaching for Perl or Python.

Twenty powerful bash one-liners every sysadmin should know—file ops, process hunting, networking, text processing, disk analysis

Enable GPU acceleration in Chrome and Firefox on Linux with VA-API, Wayland, and WebGPU. Covers the flags and config settings that actually work in 2026.

Control Linux audio volume and mic boost from the terminal with ALSA's amixer — no GUI needed, no remembering cryptic card numbers.

Compile software on Raspberry Pi or cheap VPS with 512MB–2GB RAM. Swap, parallel jobs, ccache, and swappiness tuning make it work.

Build a video slideshow from static images with a voiceover track using FFmpeg — concat filters, fade transitions, and audio sync.

nohup, disown, and & all keep processes running after logout — but they work differently. Here's which one to reach for and why.

Access services on the host machine from inside a Docker container using host-gateway or host.docker.internal — no hardcoded IPs.

WebGL disabled or hardware acceleration broken? Force-enable it in Chrome and Firefox with the right flags and about:config tweaks.

Shell globbing breaks inside docker exec because of how args are parsed — here's how to pass wildcards and asterisks correctly.