Complicated Things – Made Easy
Developer day planning starts with the hours already spoken for. Meetings, review duty, support requests, lunch and a hard stop all take time. Write those down first, then choose flexible work that fits the remainder. A calendar shows appointments. A task list shows intentions. Planning a developer day means looking at both before deciding how … Read more
In this article, you will learn how to create a pfSense site-to-site VPN tunnel between two pfSense firewalls!
Linux shared memory lets two or more processes read and write the same block of RAM, with no copying through pipes or sockets in between. That makes it the fastest way for processes on one machine to talk. Below are two complete C programs, a writer and a reader, that compile and run as-is, plus … Read more
Linux systemd is the first process that starts on almost every modern distro, and it manages everything after that: services, mounts, timers, logs. Day to day you talk to it with two commands, systemctl to control services and journalctl to read their logs. Learn about 15 commands and one unit file layout and you can … Read more
Linux memory management in one sentence: the kernel uses every bit of RAM your programs aren’t using as disk cache, and hands it back the moment a program needs it. That’s why free often shows almost no “free” memory on a perfectly healthy machine. The number you actually care about is available, not free. Below … Read more
Learn how to install VS Code on macOS and also why we think that VS Code is the best IDE for beginners – read now!
You installed Smush, a caching plugin, Autoptimize, maybe WP-Optimize for the database. Your PageSpeed score went up a bit. And the site still feels slow, especially in wp-admin. I run into this all the time. Don’t start deleting plugins at random. That usually breaks something and doesn’t fix the speed anyway. The real problem is … Read more
The top things to do after installing Kali Linux in 2026: fix the new signing key, harden your setup, and install the tools that actually matter.
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Claude custom instructions that force short, answer-first replies. Copy-paste ruleset for ~/.claude/CLAUDE.md and the Claude app, plus the gotchas.