Zerotier. When opening ports isn't ok

Zerotier Primer

To understand this, you'll first need to understand the very basics of how ipv4 networks work. I'll only gloss over things here, but you won't need to know a lot in order to actually use zerotier. It's mearly explaining what you should understand in order to know how …

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What's all the fuss about docker?

Why is everyone excited?

Docker is, simply put, a container. How is this at all exciting? Think about any time you set up a system, and how long you spend setting it up. No matter if it's a web server, a build environment or any other system service. Do you …

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ZFS. It's not a filesystem, it's an ecosystem

What is a filesystem?

All computers need to give you access to files. This seems quite obvious at first, but how those files get stored, most people don't seem to think about. Files need to be stored on a disk (or a network, but lets focus about on disk), and …

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PMM (Package Manager Manager)

Motivation

PMM came about from a simple frustration. "Why is there so much cruft installed that I just don't care about in my system?!" This is pretty simple to solve one would think. Just list all packages with something like pacman -Qqe, go through them all one by one, and …

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