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A few weeks ago I wrote up the bash scripts I use to turn Ubuntu cloud images into Proxmox templates and clone them into VMs. The scripts work, but every time I went to spin something up I found myself re-reading the post to remember which env vars to set, which storage pool I’d picked, and which snippet file was the current “good” one. The …
Containers were never designed to be a security boundary, yet we have spent the last decade treating them like one. I'm joined by Alex Zenla, Founder and CTO of Edera, to explore …
I’ve been clicking through the Ubuntu installer on Proxmox since 2019 – I even wrote a note to myself back then about the dance. Partition the disk, pick a locale, wait for packages, reboot, SSH in, install the things I always install. Ten minutes per VM, every time. What finally pushed me to fix it was wanting ephemeral Ubuntu VMs for …
Digital sovereignty is becoming an increasingly hot topic, and people are starting to wake up to just how large the premium is for “cloud” versus simply running a few dedicated servers. For me, this is full circle – not in the technology, but in the operational model. I’ve been managing my own servers since I was running FreeBSD jails …
What happens when cybersecurity stops being an afterthought and becomes a legal obligation? In this episode of Nerding Out with Viktor, I'm joined by Olle Johansson, CycloneDX …
Long before ChatGPT, I was obsessively collecting health data. Blood work going back to 2018—some in PDFs, some in spreadsheets. On the device side, I’ve cycled through Whoop, Withings, and others, all feeding into Apple Health. Over the years it’s become the central hub for everything: heart rate, steps, workouts, sleep, body composition, blood …
Marcelo Garcia, telecom infrastructure veteran turned extreme biohacker, joins me to open Season 3 of Nerding Out with Viktor. From completing a 50-day water-only fast while hiking …
In Part 1, I replaced ipgeolocation.io with a self-hosted Rust service in under two hours. That was just one piece of a larger pattern we’ve been following at Screenly. This is the story of DSLF—a project that started as a link shortener and evolved into a Linktree killer. The Link Shortener A few months ago, I got fed up paying for Rebrandly at …