Tyblog

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Tyler Langlois's writing on Linux, systems administration, self-hosting, programming, and security.

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Asynchronous Emacs Direnv Devshells #Emacs #Programming #DevOps
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Jun 17, 2026
You Don't Love systemd Timers Enough #Linux #Systemd #DevOps
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May 5, 2026
This Blog Post is Your Sign to Start Self-Hosting #SelfHosting #Tech #OpenSource
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Feb 19, 2026
Thank Goodness Universal Basic Income Saved the AI Economy #AI #UBI #Economy
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Jan 8, 2026
439 Days, 8,369 Miles, and 2 Kids with an Electric Vehicle #EV #ElectricVehicle #Family
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Jan 6, 2026
To monitor my backups, I had to first invent the universe #Backups #DataProtection #SystemAdmin
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Aug 15, 2025
systemd has been a complete, utter, unmitigated success #Linux #Systemd #Tech
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Jul 8, 2025
The Human Resources Alignment Problem #Tech #Business #Management
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Jun 18, 2025
A Beginner's Guide to Extending Emacs #Emacs #Programming #OpenSource
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Feb 4, 2025
Blog Architecture Redux #Tech #SelfHosting #Blogging
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Jan 27, 2025
How to Preview System Updates on NixOS #NixOS #Linux #SystemAdmin
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Feb 8, 2023
An Affordable Voice Assistant that Won't Spy On You #Privacy #OpenSource #DIY
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Dec 13, 2022
A Modest License Violation Proposal #OpenSource #License #Programming
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Oct 16, 2022
The Best Thing About Docker is not Docker #Docker #DevOps #Container
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Sep 27, 2022
35 Million Hot Dogs: Benchmarking Caddy vs. Nginx #WebServers #Performance #OpenSource
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Sep 14, 2022
One Year With the Framework Laptop and NixOS #Nixos #Linux #Tech
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Sep 5, 2022
Have You Considered Load-bearing Shell History? #Linux #SysAdmin #Programming
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Jul 21, 2022
A Doppler Test Drive #Linux #Systems #SelfHosting
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Mar 24, 2022
Too Simple To Fail: Marrying Nomad, Caddy, and Wireguard #SelfHosting #DevOps #Networking
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Feb 4, 2022
Unbreakable Builds on Container Schedulers without Containers #Linux #DevOps #Programming
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Jun 10, 2021
Tools I Love to Not Think About #Tech #SelfHosting #SysAdmin
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Jan 23, 2021
Industrial Strength Arch Linux #Linux #ArchLinux #SysAdmin
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Sep 26, 2020
My Favorite Things From 2019 #Personal #Review #YearInReview
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Feb 4, 2020
Shell Kung Fu #ShellScripting #Linux #CLI
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Jan 5, 2019
Going Completely Overboard with a Clustered Homelab #Homelab #SelfHosting #Tech
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Aug 13, 2018
Building my ideal router for $50 #DIY #Networking #Hardware
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Apr 9, 2018
When Disks Die: A ZFS Recovery Post-Mortem #ZFS #DataRecovery #Storage
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Mar 12, 2018
Systemd for (Impatient) Sysadmins #Linux #Systemd #Sysadmin
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Jul 9, 2017
Advent Of Code 2016 in Haskell #Haskell #Programming #AdventOfCode
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Nov 30, 2016
systemd, User Instances, Device Units, and Media Archiving #Linux #Systemd #Tech
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Jul 11, 2015
Kippo Honeypot Video Gallery #Security #Honeypot #Linux
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Oct 19, 2014
Running Docker on CentOS - External Network Access #Docker #Linux #Networking
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Oct 3, 2014
Practical Linux Pipelining #Linux #SysAdmin #CLI
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May 17, 2014
SSH Kung Fu #SSH #Security #SysAdmin
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Apr 27, 2014
Please stop hashing passwords #Security #Programming #Password
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Apr 20, 2014
An Exercise in Weak Random Seed Exploitation #Security #Exploit #Programming
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Apr 4, 2014
Docker DVWA Container How-To #Docker #Security #Linux
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Mar 2, 2014
Yet Another Vim Setup #Vim #Editor #Programming
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Dec 25, 2013
Raspberry Pi XBMC How-To #Linux #RaspberryPi #HomeMedia
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Dec 29, 2012
The blog zygote #Linux #Blogging #SelfHosting
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Jul 19, 2012