Author: Cont
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Veeam Agent Windows: Push-Deploy Physical Box to Backup Repository
Physical Windows machine needs backing up to Veeam repository. Here’s the exact checklist: firewall ports, credentials, and the UAC registry key that blocks agent push-deploy. 20 minutes. Most…
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PSX-Style Retro Shader in Godot 4: Colour Banding, Dithering & Pixel Upscale
How to build a full PSX-style retro rendering stack in Godot 4: colour banding shader, Bayer dithering, scanlines, half-resolution dynamic upscale, camera auto-look tooling, and cinematic fade transitions.
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OpenCode Web Behind Authentik: AI Coding in Your Browser, Protected by SSO
Running AI coding tools as a web service usually means choosing between security and convenience. Here’s how to deploy OpenCode’s built-in web interface behind Authentik forward-auth — Docker,…
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How We Eliminated Deployment Downtime with Docker DNS and Sequential Container Swaps
Every push to production killed all four containers for 2-3 minutes. Here’s how we cut that to 5 seconds using Docker’s built-in DNS resolver and sequential service recreation…
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UI Testing at Light Speed: Automated Harnesses That Catch Bugs in Seconds
Stop clicking menus manually. An isolated test harness can verify your UI components in 2 seconds — catching naming bugs, path errors, and layout overlaps before they reach…
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When Your Shelly Overheats: Temperature-Driven Control for Hot Water
This is a follow-up to our earlier article on Solar Hot Water Diversion with Home Assistant and Shelly: A Debugging Story. The Setup We published our solar hot…
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How to Debug a Broken Web App: A Noob’s Guide to Token Hell
Settings page broken. JSON parse error. Redirect loop. Token issue. Here’s exactly how I traced a production bug from browser error to root cause, using nothing but curl,…
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100 Attempts, One Missing DLL: How We Fixed an Unpatchable Windows Server Remotely
After 100+ failed repair attempts across six weeks, we brought a Windows Server 2019 host back from the dead using a remote VHDX donor transplant. Here is the…
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How I Got Ripped Off Buying a Sea-Doo Speedster on Facebook Marketplace — And the Full Rebuild Story
The Purchase I found a 1999 Sea-Doo Speedster on Facebook Marketplace. Twin Rotax 787 engines, jet boat, looked like a fun family project. The seller assured me it…
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Zero-Budget Homelab: How to Experiment Without Breaking the Bank
Most of my ideas don’t make money. That’s the problem. I needed infrastructure to build web apps, test IoT devices, and self-host services — but I couldn’t justify…