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Linuxize ☛ lsblk Command in Linux: List Block Devices
Use lsblk to list disks, partitions, filesystems, UUIDs, and mount points in Linux, then customize columns and produce JSON output for scripts.
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ID Root ☛ How To Install VidCutter on Ubuntu 26.04 LTS
Video editing on GNU/Linux has a reputation problem.
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Kyle Reddoch ☛ SIEM-Lite with a Few Useful Alerts
SIEM-lite is not an undersized enterprise SIEM. It is a small operating model for environments that cannot justify collecting every endpoint, network, identity, and application event. The platform may be a hosted log service, an open-source stack, a monitoring tool, or several provider alerts routed to one reviewed destination. The requirements are the same: the event must arrive, preserve enough context, trigger a meaningful condition, and reach someone who knows what to do.
The earlier home logging guide starts with investigation questions. Keep that discipline. A SIEM does not rescue data that has the wrong timestamp, omits the affected user, or disappears before anyone looks.
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Kyle Reddoch ☛ Building My Jellyfin Server, Releasing New Projects, and Escaping the Heat (Week 32, 2026)
A busy week of building out my Jellyfin server, releasing new media tools, working from home, cooling off at the city pool, and sending the first Defender's Dispatch.
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Hackaday ☛ The Agony Of Packaging Linux Apps
One of the great things of Linux as an ecosystem is that there is so much choice. Yet this is also its greatest weakness, as unlike on MacOS and Windows this means that simple questions often do not have a simple answer. The topic of distributing software is one of these vexing topics that never really goes away, with [Noam Lewis], as author of the Fresh editor, recently expressing their frustrations on this topic.
This is a familiar topic that we have covered before, mostly in the context of cross-platform installers. Whereas on MacOS and Windows you just pick any of a handful of standard installer frameworks that do roughly the same thing, on Linux you are dealing with a dizzying number of package managers, including distro-specific ones, NPM, Homebrew, Rust crates, third party repositories like Arch Linux’s AUR or stray APT repositories for Debian, and of course AppImage and Flatpak along with a host of other options.