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64 articles
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ihasmail Was Written for One User
ihasmail started eleven months ago as a webmail for my own Stalwart server, and stayed private for ten of them. It is not competing with anyone — here is what it is, what it isn't, and why parity with other projects was…
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ihasmail Gained Nine Languages
Translations are the easiest thing in software to ship dishonestly. ihasmail gained nine, all of them machine-made and unreviewed — and the app says so, in the language you just chose. Plus swipe, hold and…
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LINUXexpert.org Is Retiring, and Everything Is Moving Home
After years of how-tos and study guides, LINUXexpert.org is winding down. The writing moves here to jcoffey.dev, the projects move to coffeylabs.org, and the tutorials go to the people who can keep them fresh.
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ihasmail Goes Immutable: No Volume, No Database, Nothing Left Behind
Most "stateless" software still hides a config directory somewhere. ihasmail's IMMUTABLE=1 mode runs read-only with no volume at all — here's the trade-off, and two commands to verify it yourself.
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Announcing ihasmail: a JMAP Webmail Built for Stalwart
Mail, calendar, contacts, files and a visual Sieve builder — one JMAP protocol, credentials never in the browser. AGPL-3.0, runs in a container, ships with a mock server so you can try it without touching real mail..
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Announcing Cairn OBS: Kubernetes-Native Log Aggregation, AGPLv3, No Feature Gate
Cairn OBS is a Kubernetes-native log aggregation and observability platform — one query language over ClickHouse and Tantivy, dashboards, alerting, multi-tenant RBAC, AI-assisted queries. AGPLv3, whole thing, no paid…
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A New Look for LINUXexpert.org
We just shipped a full redesign — a dark-first, terminal-inspired look built for how sysadmins actually read. Same content, same URLs, better filtering, and the password generator is back.
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Thirty-Three Years of Debian
Debian turns 33 this August. A look at why the free, stable, community-governed OS still anchors the Linux world — and how to give back on Debian Day.
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Perl, the Strange Language That Built the Early Web
A deep dive into Perl’s history, its role in building the early web, and how it influenced modern programming languages, package ecosystems, and developer culture.
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Stop Saying “Actually, It’s GNU/Linux”
New Linux desktop users don’t leave because they can’t learn—they leave because the community makes them feel unwelcome. The “Linux is just a kernel” / “Actually it’s GNU/Linux” correction is often semantic gatekeeping…
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Don’t Date Your Ex
Switching operating systems isn’t just a technical migration. It’s a habit migration. You’re moving muscle memory, assumptions, and identity—“this is how a computer works”—from one world to another.
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Iron Maiden: Cathedral, Bazaar, and the Unintentional University of Metal
Iron Maiden taught me Coleridge, Tennyson and a lot of military history without ever trying to. Why I think of them as the most open source band on earth, and the habits I took from heavy metal into a life in Linux.