IoT devices live on their own VLAN with no internet access and I sleep better.

Caddy won me over with automatic HTTPS; nginx when I need fine control.

Would love to hear how you all handle this.

My little home lab started as a Pi and is now a full rack shelf — send help.

WireGuard took ten minutes to set up and replaced every port-forward I had.

Caddy won me over with automatic HTTPS; nginx when I need fine control.

IoT devices live on their own VLAN with no internet access and I sleep better.

I did a bit of searching but could not find a recent thread on this, so here we go.

Live music is one of the few things I will happily overspend on.

My vinyl shelf is small but every record earns its place.

I run a small blog and a MyBB forum of my own, so this place is right up my alley.

Overall the forum feels fast and the layout is easy on the eyes.

One small suggestion: a toggle between light and dark mode would be lovely.

I have been lurking for a few weeks and finally made an account.

Would love to hear how you all handle this.

My little home lab started as a Pi and is now a full rack shelf — send help.

Caddy won me over with automatic HTTPS; nginx when I need fine control.

Any tips, experiences or strong opinions welcome.

Moving from shared hosting to a VPS was the best decision for my sites.

My monitoring setup alerts me within a minute of downtime and costs nothing.

Maybe this has been discussed before, but I could not find anything recent.

Smart watch battery is my deciding factor now; everything else is good enough.

Mobile photo quality is 90% lighting and 10% sensor, fight me.

My e-ink reader gets more use than my tablet — the battery lasts weeks.

Maybe this has been discussed before, but I could not find anything recent.

Would love to hear how you all handle this.

Learned the hard way that an untested backup is a Schrödinger backup.

My monitoring setup alerts me within a minute of downtime and costs nothing.

I will start: reheated pasta and zero regrets.

Caffeine thread because Friday mornings require teamwork.

This is a judgement-free zone. Mostly.

Go on, share yours. Rules: no politics, keep it fun.

Any tips, experiences or strong opinions welcome.

Would love to hear how you all handle this.

Traffic is tiny so far but the feedback from early users has been great.

I rebuilt the whole front page based on what users actually clicked.

Everything is custom except the CMS, and the CSS is all variables so theming is trivial.

Curious what everyone else here thinks about it.

Hooks are the heart of MyBB plugins — is where everything starts.

Remember: _activate() should be reversible, _install() owns permanent structures.

I did a bit of searching but could not find a recent thread on this, so here we go.

Looking forward to learning from everyone here.

I run a small blog and a MyBB forum of my own, so this place is right up my alley.

Maybe this has been discussed before, but I could not find anything recent.

Full-site editing is powerful but clients keep breaking their own layouts with it.

Dark mode via prefers-color-scheme is easier than I expected.

I did a bit of searching but could not find a recent thread on this, so here we go.

IoT devices live on their own VLAN with no internet access and I sleep better.

My little home lab started as a Pi and is now a full rack shelf — send help.

Self-hosted email is the one thing I refuse to take on — deliverability is a minefield.

Caddy won me over with automatic HTTPS; nginx when I need fine control.

Maybe this has been discussed before, but I could not find anything recent.

Hooks are the heart of MyBB plugins — is where everything starts.

I keep a list of essential plugins and thought I would share it here.

Would love to hear how you all handle this.

I switched the cache store to Redis and the ACP feels snappier now.

Make sure you take both a files and a database backup before upgrading.

— always check for this guard in your own plugin files.

WireGuard took ten minutes to set up and replaced every port-forward I had.

IoT devices live on their own VLAN with no internet access and I sleep better.

I did a bit of searching but could not find a recent thread on this, so here we go.

After juggling a dozen WP sites for clients, I have opinions on pretty much everything WordPress.

Child themes are still the correct way to override a theme you do not control.

My rule of thumb: if a plugin has not been updated in a year, it is a liability.

wp-cron only fires on page views, so low-traffic sites should switch to system cron.

Curious what everyone else here thinks about it.

I did a bit of searching but could not find a recent thread on this, so here we go.

Bootstrap 5 works fine inside MyBB as long as you namespace your overrides.

A lot of old 1.6-era themes only need template tweaks to render correctly.

Keeping templates in Git finally lets me diff changes sanely.

Maybe this has been discussed before, but I could not find anything recent.

I did a bit of searching but could not find a recent thread on this, so here we go.

Learned the hard way that an untested backup is a Schrödinger backup.

My monitoring setup alerts me within a minute of downtime and costs nothing.

Staging is just a subdomain plus a database copy — nothing fancy, works fine.

Moving from shared hosting to a VPS was the best decision for my sites.