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Configuring AppArmor on Ubuntu: Profiles, Modes & Custom Policies

01December 21, 2021 · 14 min readSecurity

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Configuring AppArmor on Ubuntu: Profiles, Modes & Custom

Covers AppArmor enforce vs complain modes, reading audit logs, generating profiles with aa-genprof, and writing custom policy rules.

Linux
AppArmor
Ubuntu
Security
Policy

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Newest production notes across Laravel, PHP, databases, security, performance, debugging, and release work.

173December 8, 2021 · 16 min readPerformance

Caching Strategies in PHP: Redis, Memcached & HTTP Cache

Covers key-value caching, cache-aside pattern, cache invalidation, and HTTP cache headers to reduce server load significantly.

PHP
Performance
Redis
Memcached

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174November 30, 2021 · 16 min readArchitecture

Designing a Clean PHP Architecture: Hexagonal, Onion

Contrasts architectural patterns, shows PHP project layouts for each, and explains the dependency rule and port/adapter separation.

PHP
Architecture
Clean Architecture
Hexagonal Architecture

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175November 28, 2021 · 30 min readOpen Source

Who Owns Open Source Code? Licenses, Copyright

Clarifies the legal landscape - MIT, Apache, GPL, and AGPL licenses, contributor license agreements, and what corporate adoption means for ownership and control.

Open Source
Licensing
Copyright
Contributor Agreements

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176November 14, 2021 · 14 min readDebugging

Rubber Duck Debugging and Why Explaining Your Bug Out Loud

Explains the cognitive science behind verbalising a problem - how articulation forces precision and surfaces hidden assumptions in your mental model.

PHP
Debugging
Rubber Duck Debugging
Problem Solving

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177November 9, 2021 · 12 min readAdministration

Bash Shell Configuration: .bashrc, .bash_profile

Explains login vs non-login shells, customizing PS1 prompts, managing PATH, aliases, functions, and sourcing configs in the right order.

Linux
Bash
Shell
Administration

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178October 27, 2021 · 14 min readMonitoring

Linux Monitoring With Prometheus & Grafana: Full Stack

Installs Node Exporter and Prometheus, configures scrape intervals, builds Grafana dashboards, and sets up alerting rules.

Linux
Monitoring
Prometheus
Grafana

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179October 14, 2021 · 14 min readCore PHP

Mastering PHP Generators: Memory-Efficient Data Processing

Demonstrates generators as iterators and coroutines, benchmarking memory savings against array-based approaches for large datasets.

PHP
Generators
Performance
Memory

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180October 7, 2021 · 17 min readEngineering

Simplicity as a Design Principle: Lessons From Unix

Draws lessons from languages and systems famously built around simplicity, showing how their constraints produced more maintainable ecosystems.

Engineering
Simplicity
Unix
Python

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