Open Source Guides & Tutorials

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Back Up a k3s Node and Restore It 1:1 on New Hardware

How I back up my single-node k3s cluster on Ubuntu and restore it 1:1 onto new hardware — same IP, SSH identity, volumes, and Kubernetes secrets intact.

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Kubernetes

Portside: The Agentless Kubernetes Dashboard That Replaced LogMk

Portside is an agentless, self-hosted Kubernetes dashboard that streams pod logs live from the K8s API — and why I retired LogMk's MySQL log pipeline for it.

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WAF

Thorngate: A Tiny Go WAF That Guards Your Cloudflare Tunnel

Thorngate is a zero-dependency Go reverse-proxy WAF behind a Cloudflare Tunnel that honeypots scanners into a persistent blacklist before they reach your apps.

Web Development

Building a Static Blog to Replace Ghost

I replaced my self-hosted Ghost blog with a static site — cheaper, faster, and with almost no attack surface. Here's the stack and how you can do the same.

Text Editor

NoteMode: An Open-Source Notepad++ Alternative

Looking for a Notepad++ alternative? Flit is an open source, cross-platform text editor with syntax highlighting, session persistence, and dual themes.