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Deploying Cookiecutter Django on a DigitalOcean Droplet (Ubuntu 24.04 LTS)

May 9 · 8 min read · A no-fluff deployment runbook for getting a Cookiecutter Django project live on DigitalOcean using Docker and Traefik. Covers the full path from droplet provisioning to a working production deployment

Automating Cloudflare WARP Based on WiFi SSID (Linux Guide)

May 6 · 3 min read · If you’re switching between networks with different trust levels—home, café, coworking space—you probably don’t want your VPN behavior to be static. This guide walks through a clean, system-level way

Hunting Disk Hogs on Ubuntu: A Shell Script for Finding the Largest Files

Apr 21 · 7 min read · Why this script exists If you've ever watched your free disk space quietly shrink over a few weeks of active development, you know the feeling: yesterday you had plenty of headroom, today your IDE is

Renaming 1000+ Pages Worth of "Levels" Without Losing My Mind

Apr 21 · 5 min read · A message from a colleague dropped into my inbox one morning: Hi Ice, now that we pushed the changes sa site, we need to scour the site for mentions of Level 1, Level 2, Level 1/2 and change them acc

How to Manually Backup WordPress Sites via SSH

Apr 17 · 5 min read · Backing up your WordPress site is one of the most important maintenance tasks you can do as a site owner. While plugins like UpdraftPlus or Jetpack make this easy, knowing how to do it manually via SS