My Framework laptop paid itself off, thanks to my stupidity

How many of you have heard of Framework, the company that’s right to repair first? Some people I know that have seen one, whether online or in person, called their modularity and repairability a party trick that’s nothing meaningful, deemed it overpriced, or complained about the 3:2 aspect ratio screen. However, what if I said that the first two points - the modularity being a party trick and being overpriced - just need time to prove their potential?...

January 11, 2025 · 6 min · Monica Hanson

Configure Your Firewalls Correctly: an Open Letter to Sysadmins

Imagine this: you’re running a web hosting service and you need to connect in to add another client who has specific needs your setup script doesn’t account for. You try to connect via SSH, but it hangs. After hanging, you escape out of the session and reconnect with the verbose flag set. You notice the wrong IP address, and you realize that you set up Cloudflare proxying. So you SSH in to the server with the public facing IP address, to find out it’s still not connecting....

August 28, 2023 · 8 min · Monica Hanson