today's howtos

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Aug 22, 2026

• Linuxize ☛ DNS Record Types Explained: A, AAAA, CNAME, MX, TXT, and More

  DNS record types map domains to servers, route email, publish verification data, and control certificate issuance. See zone-file examples and dig queries.

• TecMint ☛ 16 Fun Linux One-Liners Every Command-Line User Should Try

  The tools involved haven’t changed in decades. wc, tr, sort, uniq, fold, grep and awk are on every Linux box you’ll ever log into. What has changed is that your text is now UTF-8, your locale is no longer C, and the sloppy pipelines that were fine on a 2014 ASCII man page will quietly hand you wrong numbers today.

• Linux Handbook ☛ LHB GNU/Linux Digest #26.10: systemd Playbook, Redirection, "forgit" and More

  Time to explore systemd

• EKS Finally Lets You Touch the Control Plane Knobs You’ve Been Faking with Workarounds

  EKS now lets you tune the scheduler, HPA sync period, event retention, and NodePort range directly on your control plane — here's what each one actually does and where it bites.

• Emmanuel Kasper: Moving software development to separate VM to reduce credential scavenging

  Rationale:

  I was remembered via https://unit42.paloaltonetworks.com/chaindrop-npm-worm-analysis/ (linked from https://anarc.at/blog/2026-08-18-people-vs-ai-overlords/) of the risk of downloading untrusted packages in a dev environment.

• Data Swamp ☛ How to setup your own IPFS private network

  In this blog post, you will learn how to make a private IPFS network that will allow private peers to exchange data between each other. This is in opposition to the default setup in which you use the default configuration connecting to the whole IPFS network. The incentive to have your own network is mostly speed, because this does not have any extra access control, any peer can potentially access to any content you have in your IPFS network.

  If you do not know about IPFS, I wrote some blog posts, but otherwise IPFS website may give you some clue. It is not easy to grasp, but you can see it as a network service providing content addressed object storage. The base blocks provide features to manage data in the network but also cache it or provide it through a web gateway.

• Josh Collinsworth ☛ In defense of two-state theme toggles

  In case you haven’t kept up on the most recent bikeshedding discussion in frontend: there’s a lively debate going on over the merits of a simpler two-state theme toggle (light/dark), vs. a more explicit three-state toggle (with dark and light, plus a third “system” option), and whether the clarity of that third option is worth the additional complexity it introduces.

  But let’s back up to where this discussion started, and talk a little bit more about the details and tradeoffs those two approaches, before I start weighing in on what I think is (and is not) ideal, and why.

• Clayton Errington ☛ Hosting a service with TailScale

  This can now be fully public, or still private to those devices connected to your network. Overall, TailScale and the network has been a great reliable tool for me to connect from remote locations and still have all the same access as if I was at home still. The idea of using the Funnel was to provide a service I host at home to the public so from other devices, I do not need to be on the network.

• Linux.org ☛ Orange Pi 6 Plus and Pimox 8.4.10

  In this article, we will look at the Orange Pi 6 Plus and then we will go over the instructions to install Pimox on it. Pimox is a fork of Proxmox that runs on an ARM processor.

  The Arm processors may be slower, but the fork of Proxmox is nearly exactly like the one for regular desktop systems.

• Linux.org ☛ PocketBeagle 2: Setup, Imaging, and Internet Access

  The device we will cover in this article is a newer version of the PocketBeagle, which is covered here.

  We can go over the newer specs and use the PocketBeagle 2. If you look back at the original Pocket Beagle article, you can see pictures of the board next to a quarter. The PocketBeagle is a little larger than a quarter, and the second version of the board is still the same size.

• HowTo Geek ☛ Two ways to play and stream video in the Linux terminal

  A few years ago, I discovered the joys of listening to music via the command line. Despite my background in TV and production, I've never been much of a video guy. But that changed (slightly) when I discovered a few cool ways to play and stream video to my Linux Terminal.

• Make Use Of ☛ I deployed OpenClaw on a laptop and learned exactly where it hits its limits [Ed: Bots sold as slop or "AI"]

• HowTo Geek ☛ I rebuilt my Linux workflow around Namespaces and never looked back

  A little while ago, my Linux machine was running excruciatingly slow. I attempted a few fixes: data management, optimization, adjusting Timeshift backups. That sort of thing. During that adventure, I found a few processes that were still causing performance issues. So I turned to Linux Namespaces to improve the visibility of my system processes and run applications safely.