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restic vs BorgBackup: Encrypted, Deduplicated Backups

DevOps

July 20269 min read

restic vs BorgBackup: Encrypted, Deduplicated Backups

A hands-on comparison of restic and BorgBackup for encrypted, deduplicated backups: repositories, backends, prune and retention, and restore speed.

Server-Sent Events vs WebSockets for Realtime

Backend

July 20269 min read

Server-Sent Events vs WebSockets for Realtime

When one-way SSE beats a full WebSocket, how reconnection and HTTP/2 change the math, and how I actually choose per use case.

Running SQLite in Production with Litestream

Backend

July 20269 min read

Running SQLite in Production with Litestream

Continuous streaming replication to object storage, point-in-time restore, and the honest limits of single-node SQLite on a VPS.

Hardening Linux Services with systemd Sandboxing

Security

July 20269 min read

Hardening Linux Services with systemd Sandboxing

How I lock down Linux daemons from the outside using systemd's built-in sandbox — filesystem, temp, privileges, and syscalls — then measure the result.

TanStack Router: Fully Type-Safe Routing in React

Web Dev

July 20269 min read

TanStack Router: Fully Type-Safe Routing in React

How TanStack Router gives you typed params, validated search state, and route loaders — and why file-based routing beats hand-wiring the tree.

Import Existing Infrastructure into Terraform Without Hand-Writing HCL

DevOps

July 20269 min read

Import Existing Infrastructure into Terraform Without Hand-Writing HCL

How Terraform import blocks and the -generate-config-out flag turn a painful manual chore into a reviewable, config-driven workflow — plus the limits that still bite.

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