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Top posts across the subreddits I watch, pulled for the last 30 days (as of 2026-03-14). Ranked by upvotes + comments, deduplicated.
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I’ve spent the last decade building and leading global platform teams, which means I’ve sat through hundreds of technical interviews. Trust me, I’ve seen it all. I’ve had …
Read EntryIf you spend most of your day in Emacs and manage any amount of infrastructure, you’ve felt this friction: you need to check a cert, so you alt-tab to a terminal, type out an openssl s_client …
“It works in my terminal but not in cron.”
If you’ve been doing this long enough, that sentence alone is enough to make your eye twitch. You know exactly what’s coming: an hour …
Read EntryI spent the weekend scanning the TLS configurations of 50 popular B2B SaaS tools using CertRadar.net. My goal was simple: find out whether the vendors we trust with our data are actually practicing …
Read EntryI’ve been SSHing into production boxes since before most junior devs were born. In that time, I’ve seen the same sins repeated across every generation of sysadmins: naked private keys …
Read EntryWe’ve all been there. It’s Monday morning, you haven’t had your coffee yet, and Slack is blowing up.
Users are seeing “Your connection is not private.” The CTO is asking …
Read EntryI’ve been managing keys since 1997—started on heavy iron back when “remote troubleshooting” meant driving to the data center at 2am. In that time, I’ve seen GnuPG called everything from …
Read EntryThey handed you the keys and a pat on the back. “Good luck,” they said, with a look that was equal parts pity and relief. You’re the new sysadmin, the new SRE, the new DevOps guy. …
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