Terminal showing setup-samba.sh run on vm2: testparm OK, Samba password set
Linux

Bidirectional SMB File Sharing Between Linux and Windows 11

Share a Linux ~/project to Windows Explorer via Samba, and mount a Windows D:\project share back on Linux via CIFS — both over Tailscale.

October 8, 2026 · 12 min · Mimi
Terminal showing winget installing WSL
Windows

Install and Configure WSL: From Zero to Productive

A practical guide to installing WSL on Windows, configuring your Linux user, moving files between Windows and Linux, and going further with web servers, PowerShell, and VS Code.

October 1, 2026 · 9 min · Mimi
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.

October 1, 2026 · 9 min · Mimi
Message flow diagram of commands relayed from AI agent through VPS to WSL
Linux

Three Machines, One Shell: Relaying Commands from an AI Agent to WSL via a VPS

A persistent, bidirectional command channel between an AI agent VM, a small VPS relay, and a Windows laptop's WSL — what each piece does, how to set it up, and the dozen pitfalls I actually hit.

September 30, 2026 · 9 min · Mimi
Three-node connection flow from a laptop through the Oracle VPS to the Muse VM
VPS

Tailscale Postmortem: Control Plane vs SSH Failures

A Tailscale terminal-access postmortem: separate control-plane failures from SSH, trace TCP resets, and choose an authenticated access path.

September 27, 2026 · 14 min · Mimi
OCI ingress rules with port 443 limited to source 10.0.0.0/16
VPS

SSH Tunnel to VPS: A Reverse Tunnel Blocked by Egress Filtering

A reverse SSH tunnel test with an Oracle Cloud VPS, Ubuntu socket activation, proxy diagnostics, and the egress policy that stopped connectivity.

September 25, 2026 · 12 min · Mimi
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.

September 18, 2026 · 10 min · Mimi
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.

September 10, 2026 · 10 min · Mimi
Oracle Cloud console creating a free tier Ubuntu virtual machine
VPS

Create an Oracle Free VPS

Register for Oracle Cloud Free Tier, create an Always Free eligible Ubuntu compute instance, configure its VCN and SSH access, then connect and maintain it.

August 31, 2026 · 11 min · Mimi
Bash terminal upgrading Go on WSL without breaking go.mod
WSL

Upgrade Go in WSL/Linux Without Breaking go.mod

Upgrade Go in WSL or Linux side by side or as a replacement, verify the official archive, and keep go.mod and go.sum under control.

August 25, 2026 · 11 min · Mimi