
Mattias Geniar
@mattias_geniar@robot.villas
Mattias Geniar's writing on Linux, PHP, DevOps, DNS, security, web performance, independent software products, and development tools.
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The 7 reasons Apple rejected my app, and what I changed #AppDev #MobileDev #Apple
Data is the application #Data #Application #Software
Introducing Snapkin: the calorie tracker for people who've quit calorie trackers #HealthTech #Productivity #Software
9000 RPM is faster than your screen refreshes #Tech #Performance #WebDev
PWAs: Personal Web Apps #WebDev #PWAs #Software
Deduplicating git worktrees on EXT4 with jdupes #DevOps #Linux #Git
Setting up a remote environment for agentic coding #DevOps #Coding #RemoteWork
Merging multiple EPUBs into a single file for Amazon Kindle #eBooks #Kindle #DevTools
What 1.8 million real website outages look like #Tech #WebDev #Statistics
Turn your Filament panel into an AI-native dashboard #AI #DevTools #WebDev
Laravel Octane (FrankenPHP) vs. PHP-FPM: what I measured, and why we went back #PHP #WebDev #Performance
Dealing with concurrent bridge-network creates & host-port races in Docker #Docker #DevOps #Networking
Letting Cloudflare serve Brotli-compressed data with nginx #WebPerformance #DevOps #Nginx
Linux debugging tools I use daily #Linux #DevOps #Tools
The backup SSH daemon I run before every do-release-upgrade #Linux #DevOps #Security
Transcribing my old podcast locally with open-source AI #OpenSource #AI #DevOps
AI is a confidence booster #AI #Tech #Productivity
Configuring Varnish on systemd in 2026: drop-in overrides, not varnish.params #DevOps #Linux #WebPerf
Debugging cookie stripping in Varnish: client vs backend request in 2026 #DevOps #WebPerformance #Security
The ghost domain problem in DNS, and what we're doing about it #DNS #Tech #Networking
Reading the Varnish log in 2026: varnishlog -q, -g grouping and the VSL query language #DevOps #Linux #WebPerformance
Varnish in 2026: it's called Vinyl Cache now, and the mental model still holds #DevOps #WebPerformance #OpenSource
Running HTTP/3 with Caddy in 2026: it just works #HTTP3 #WebPerformance #DevOps
QUIC and HTTP/3 in 2026: from Google experiment to IETF standard #Networking #WebPerformance #DevOps
Lessons learned: don't mix $timeout attributes and properties on queued Laravel jobs #PHP #DevOps #Laravel