DevOps

Diagram of the blog publishing pipeline from WSL to Cloudflare Pages

Blogging

From WSL to the World: How This Blog Gets Published

The full publishing pipeline behind pwshtips.com: write in WSL, preview with local Hugo, push to GitHub, and let Cloudflare Pages deploy it live in under two minutes.

Terminal showing a zombie job re-executing a deploy on every relay restart

Linux

Zero-Byte Deploys and Zombie Jobs: A Failover War Story

Building a 60-second failover standby for my dev environment — and the two outages that taught me to never trust an all-green deploy chain.

GitHub authentication, two-factor setup, and Git Credential Manager architecture

Git

GitHub for Sysadmins: 2FA, Tokens, PR Workflows

A practical guide to GitHub: registration, mandatory 2FA, token authentication, repositories, projects, gists, cloning, and pull request workflows.

Installing Git on Windows with winget and verifying the version

Git

Install Git on Windows and WSL: Credentials and Line Endings

Install Git on Windows and WSL Linux, configure shared Windows credentials, set line ending standards, and master daily Git commands.

GitHub organization roles, team hierarchy, and repository permission levels

Git

GitHub Teams for Sysadmins: Roles, Branch Protection

Comprehensive guide to GitHub Organizations and Teams: member roles, granting repository access, branch protection, CODEOWNERS, and Pull Request reviews.

Local Git server architecture showing clients, Caddy reverse proxy, Gitea daemon, and storage layer

Git

How to Build a Local Git Server on Ubuntu

Step-by-step guide to building a self-hosted, GitHub-like Git server on Ubuntu using Gitea, Caddy reverse proxy, SSH passthrough, and team permissions.

Diagram comparing WinRM and SSH PowerShell remoting architectures

Networking

PowerShell Remoting with WinRM and SSH

How to choose between WinRM and SSH for PowerShell remoting on Windows, Linux, and mixed environments.