Paragon Backup & Recovery 14 Compact (with download links)
Recently, I came across an old backup on one of my NAS that I made with Paragon Software. Unfortunately, the new version is incompatible with version 14.
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That Time I Thought I Got Pwned (But Was Just Being a Noob)
Woke up to suspicious AWS bot traffic hitting my Ghost API endpoints. Spent 5 minutes convinced I was hacked before realizing I'm just an idiot who never read the docs. Turns out Ghost's Content API key is supposed to be public. Who knew? (Everyone except me, apparently.)
Building a Reliable Local NTP Server with GPS: Another Step Towards Self-Hosted Infrastructure
The improvement is staggering! We went from ~5-6 milliseconds accuracy with internet sources to just 82 microseconds with local GPS. That's over 60 times more accurate! This is stratum 1 time accuracy in my homelab!
The Day I Discovered My TimescaleDB Was Just PostgreSQL in Disguise
For years I thought my Zabbix was using TimescaleDB. A failed upgrade revealed the truth: 391 million records in plain PostgreSQL with no optimization. My queries were 7,500x slower than they should have been. Sometimes the best discoveries come from fixing what's broken.
My New Hobby: Discovering the Invisible Radio World with SDR
An IT professional discovers the invisible world of radio signals through SDR, transforming a simple RTL-SDR dongle experiment into a fascinating journey of intercepting aircraft data and witnessing impossible long-distance communications.