Dew Drop Weekly Newsletter 474 - Week Ending March 13, 2026

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Well, it's Friday 13th... What production upgrade should I do in work today?

#admin #sysadmin #DevOps

Self-Host Weekly (2026-03-13)

#Booklore turns sour, software updates and launches, a spotlight on #OpenDroneLog -- a #drone flight log app, and more in this week's #selfhosted recap!

https://selfh.st/weekly/2026-03-13

#selfhost #selfhosting #foss #opensource #homelab #devops #sysadmin #newsletter #privacy #security #fediverse #app #apps #smarthome #truenas #ntfy

As some of you may have noticed, my websites keep going down and are not reachable for hours at a time. I've been having some stability issues with my server.

#server #devops #headaches

https://blog.alexseifert.com/2026/03/13/server-stability-issues/

Most AI-generated commit messages are useless 🤖❌

As Daniel Siegl points out, most AI tools today just read the diff & summarize the obvious. They tell you what changed, which you can already see in the code.

But what if instead of just generating text, the LLM validates the commit. Does this code actually solve the problem?

How often do you catch commits that have absolutely nothing to do with the Jira ticket they are linked to? 👇

#Git #AI #CodeReview #SmartGit #DevOps #LLM #DevTools

Stay ahead in #IT certification! 💼🎯

Discover cutting-edge exams, more Learning Materials translations, digital badges, global #opensource events, and #FOSS insights to boost your career.

Download 2025 LPI Annual Review for free: https://lpi.org/0lbq

#LPI #LPIC #LPIC1 #LPIC2 #LPIC3 #DevOps #BSD #LinuxEssentials #WDE #Linux #opensource #FOSS

If you're running Docker containers without healthchecks, you're flying blind.

Add this to your compose file:

healthcheck:
test: ["CMD", "curl", "-f", "http://localhost:8080/health"]
interval: 30s
timeout: 10s
retries: 3

Your future self will thank you.

#selfhosted #docker #devops

MLOX is backend-agnostic: same CLI/UI, same config, different runtimes. Today it ships with Kubernetes, Native, Local, and Docker backends. Swap environments without rewriting deployment logic – useful for local and remote dev, testing, and prod flows.
#DevOps #MLOps #SelfHosting

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@bencurtis/116213161553533592

This was a fun collaboration with @excid3 and I can't wait for the features it will unlock at Hatchbox.io 🤘

#Ruby #RubyOnRails #DevOps

#docker healthchecks can cause load spikes. If you have 40ish containers, each asking "Are you ok" every 60 seconds, you don't need to wonder what's eating your CPU.

#devops is weird sometimes.

I need my CPU% for better things.

Has anyone actually *done* Kubernetes ABAC based on matching resource and principal actor labels?

Search just yields slop or toy projects, and the official docs don't indicate *how* you can access the attributes of the principal or resource in the policy.

Malarkey clause: if you haven't done it yourself or the article isn't complete and thorough, don't bother. LLM responses banished to the sun at rocket speed.

#K8s #Kubernetes #KubernetesDev #DevOps #PlatformEngineering

Linux Professional Institute (LPI) is offering massive community discounts on its paper-based exams to be held at @linuxtage ’26 in Austria (Apr 10–11).

Essentials €70 / all other exams €110.

Learn more: https://lpi.org/d9ng

This offer is sponsored by our partners OSC - LPI Channel Partner and Linux Training @wefinet. 🙌 💛

#GLT26 #Linux #opensource #FOSS #SysAdmin #BSD #DevOps #LPIC #LinuxEssentials #WebEssentials #SecurityEssentials #LinuxDay #linuxtage

suite à l'article de Vivian Voss concernant les structures monolithiques, https://vivianvoss.net/blog/the-distributed-tax
J'ai décidé de reprendre l'idée et de le rendre plus digeste et même concret avec un exemple. Jouez avec les boutons !

https://schopfer.moustik.site/ressources/choix-techniques-couts-performance/

#softwaredevelopment #microservice #SaaS #stratégienumérique #tech #PME #Devops #businessStrategy

ALT

If you're working with GitHub PR reviews, I can't recommend these two tools enough:
https://github.com/dlvhdr/gh-dash — a beautiful TUI dashboard for your PRs
https://github.com/dlvhdr/diffnav — the most comfortable diff navigation you'll find
Pair them together by changing the settings of gh-dash like this:

```
pager:
diff: "diffnav"
```

And your terminal becomes the best place to review code.
#devops #opensource #devtools

Episode 7 of the DevOps Tools Engineer 2.0 Introduction series dives into exam objective #ContainerOrchestration.

Learn how #DockerCompose & #PodmanCompose define and run multi-container applications for modern #DevOps workflows: https://lpi.org/gfrl

#DevOps #containerorchestration #dockercompose #podmancompose #microservices #services #networks

ALT

Як я маю довіряти Security Scan який провела незалежна компанія якщо вони просканували 80 порт на ВМ і виявили що там немає SSL/TLS і помітили це як критичну проблему?
#100дописівукраїнською #devops

Dear fellow or potential fellow gotosocial instance admins,
I've come up with a novel way to set up a #gotosocial server behind a reverse proxy, which avoids the use of making new firewalling rules - both on a VPS, and creating port forwarding on one's home router. This method is ideal for minimizing the cost of running one's own #ActivityPub/#Mastodon server, in a way that leverages inexpensive fast storage on the backend (say, on a #RaspberryPi 5, 2GB of RAM, with an NVMe). As many valiant and praiseworthy Mastodon server admins might attest to, renting cloud VPS' can cost a lot, especially when storing many tens or hundreds of GB of user data.

My method avoids the need of forwarding ports 443 and 80 into one's home LAN, using DNAT (on the VPS) and port forwarding (on one's home router). In a nutshell, it's a novel use of #Wireguard, in conjunction with #nginx on the frontend, and gotosocial on the backend. This can save the cost of renting a dedicated VPS, to get the exclusive use of ports 443 and 80, in conjunction with static IPv4 and IPv6 addresses. My method optimizes on reliability and cheapness, but it's not the most secure - decryption and re-encryption happens on the VPS, before the data travels down the Wireguard tunnel. This exposes the data to any underlying hypervisor at one's hosting company. So full disclosure there.

I've run my method by the helpful gotosocial furries in their #Matrix Help chatroom (and I'm grateful for their help to debug subtle warts the method had), and got their blessing, at least to the technical soundness of the method.

I have a testing instance of gotosocial 0.21.0 set up with this new method: https://g.toque.im

I'm the user @owl on that instance, should you wish to befriend me there.

I'll make a longer blog post on this in the days to come, and post it in a reply to this post. (I also cross-posted this on another account of mine, please forgive the duplicate: @gtsadmin )

#DevOps #Linux #infosec #SelfHosting #DataSovereignty #OpenSource

Which path will your team adopt—DevOps or Platform Engineering? Share your view. #DevOps #PlatformEngineering #InternalPlatform #CloudPlatform #Infrastructure #ITLeadership #EngineeringStrategy
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/devops-platform-engineering-strategic-crossroads-sanjay-k-mohindroo--hjvwe

#K9s Plugins: Debug Kubernetes Like a Pro

Debugging #Kubernetes workloads is painful, recreating volumes, secrets and configmaps by hand every time. I built a #k9s plugin that spins up a debug pod with everything pre-mounted automatically.

One keyboard shortcut and you're in a shell with the full container config.

My blog post: https://blog.bitfoo.de/posts/k9s-plugins/

#DevOps #k8s #Kubernetes #SRE #CloudNative #Linux #OpenSource #Containers #Homelab #PlatformEngineering #Docker

Self-Host Weekly (6 March 2026)

#Microslop and #cheeseburgers, software updates and launches, a spotlight on #VersityGW -- an #S3 object storage gateway, and more in this week's #selfhosted recap!

https://selfh.st/weekly/2026-03-06

#selfhost #selfhosting #foss #opensource #homelab #smarthome #privacy #security #newsletter #sysadmin #devops #openclaw #development #app #apps #photos #ente

Dew Drop Weekly Newsletter 473 - Week Ending March 6, 2026

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#dewdrop #newsletter #javascript #aspnetcore #azure #xaml #windowsdev #dotnetmaui #csharp #dotnet #winui #ai #mcp #devops #agile #python #appdev #podcasts #m365 #sqlserver #data #powershell #cpp

Never thought I'd say this, but... 💀🪦

#PhpStorm is dead. #JetBrains just doesn't know it yet.

They're playing catch-up with #AI Assistant while the competition already rewrote the playbook. The gap is only getting wider. 📉

RIP to the #IDE that defined a generation of #PHP developers 🕯️

#coding #DevOps #developer #programming #webdev

The Canonical Smiley (and 1-Line Symbol) List 😎

http://marshall.freeshell.org/smileys.html

:*)

#smileys #retro #emoji #oldschool #devops #socialmedia

A prompt-injected GitHub issue tricked Cline’s AI triage bot into running attacker code, leading to a compromised npm token and a malicious cline@2.3.0 release. 🧩

Around 4,000 developers unknowingly got OpenClaw installed with broad system access, showing how “AI installs AI” can quietly escalate supply-chain risk. 🛡️

🔗 https://grith.ai/blog/clinejection-when-your-ai-tool-installs-another

#TechNews #Security #SupplyChain #AI #Developers #GitHub #npm #PromptInjection #OpenClaw #Cline #DevOps #DevSecOps #Automation #Privacy #Cybersecurity