Field Notes

Occasional writing on infrastructure, networks and quiet tooling.

Keeping a small server tidy

July 12, 2026

A short checklist I run through whenever a fresh box lands in my hands: patch, prune services, mind the firewall, and automate the boring parts before they become incidents.

TLS everywhere, finally

June 28, 2026

Certificates used to be the annoying part of any side project. These days the whole flow takes minutes, and there is little excuse left for serving anything over plain HTTP.

Notes on HTTP/2 in practice

June 3, 2026

Multiplexing sounds like marketing until you measure it on a lossy link. A few practical observations from enabling h2 on small sites with modest traffic.