📰 Dev.to · Alan West

A practical walkthrough for auditing what your IDE extensions actually send to the cloud, using lsof, mitmproxy, and filesystem monitoring.

An honest comparison of Docker and Podman after migrating three projects, plus what you probably shouldn't containerize yourself.

Practical defenses against npm supply chain attacks: disable install scripts, use npm ci, audit lockfiles, verify provenance, and contain the blast radius.

Centralized Git hosts can go down or suspend accounts overnight. Here's a step-by-step guide to peer-to-peer Git collaboration that survives the platform.

A practical walkthrough of migrating a production stack to a new region without downtime, covering DNS, Postgres logical replication, and cutover.

A field-tested guide to diagnosing and recovering when a vendor firmware update silently locks down the LAN API your integration depends on.

When auth providers add phone or QR verification to signup, automated account creation breaks. Here's how to redesign your pipelines to never depend on it.

Docker publishes ports by editing iptables directly, which skips UFW entirely. Here's why it happens and three ways to actually lock things down.

Your Docker containers take 10 seconds to stop? It's almost always the PID 1 signal-handling problem. Here's the root cause and the fix.

Government open-source repos are hard to reuse. Here's how to structure institutional code with publiccode.yml, externalized config, and proper dev setup.

A practical guide to migrating open-source projects away from GitHub — covering git history, issues, CI pipelines, and how to keep contributors along the way.

How to use automated scanning tools like ClawSweeper to clean up stale GitHub issues and PRs that pile up in every active repository.

Binary config files break across versions and block code review. Here's how to audit, convert, and enforce plain text formats for resilient projects.

Fix the frustrating Linux laptop battery drain during suspend. Learn why s2idle vs S3 sleep matters and how to debug and solve it.

Learn how copy-on-write database branching solves the pain of testing Postgres schema migrations, with practical workflows and CI/CD integration.

Most engineering teams have no idea what their work actually costs. Here's a practical framework for tracking effort allocation and making better decisions.

How to audit your cloud region dependencies and build multi-region resilience before data center capacity constraints break your infrastructure.

Fix the most common reasons self-hosted production apps crash overnight — memory limits, disk issues, health checks, and the operational basics most guides skip

TapMap now supports Linux and Docker. Here's how to set it up, where it fits in your stack, and what to watch out for.