LXD container won’t start, “zpool is missing” after Ubuntu upgrade to 26.0430 Sep 2026
0 minutes, 58 secondsThis is a quick PSA post to maybe help someone who is stuck trying to start an a LXD container after upgrading from Ubuntu 24 to Ubuntu 26 and you get an error: My first many searches found folks upgrading alright, but upgrading to like Ubuntu 18?! Or another post was someone […]
Bash script to list and delete images in Amazon’s ECR26 Jun 2026
3 minutes, 22 seconds At work I was tasked with implementing a retention policy for our images in Amazon Elastic Container Registry (ECR). I first wanted to see how many images were in there, how many had tags and how much space they were taking up. While this information is available via the AWS Web […]
PSA: Trouble with Wireguard on Cellular data? Check your MTU!01 Mar 2026
0 minutes, 20 seconds tl;dr Change your MTU from 1420 to 1280 if your Android device is having issues connecting to your Wireguard VPN over cellular data. This MTU value should work on both WiFi and cellular data. Slowly discovering the solution For some time now I’ve been baffled why my Wireguard VPN doesn’t work […]
It was DNS22 Feb 2026
3 minutes, 44 seconds Intro There’s a trope among computer nerds that any complex problem that you’re struggling to figure out WTF is going on, was probably caused by DNS. There’s a whole slew of sites that capture this sentiment including itwasdns.net , itwasdns.io/was-it-dns, itwasdns.org and it’s even available as a T-Shirt! Wait – was […]
The joys of an ad hoc CLI dashboard with watch08 Oct 2025
1 minute, 33 seconds A quick post to spread the love about the watch command – it’s amazing! Prior to your knowledge of watch, maybe you wanted to run a command every 2 seconds, like say hello (credit to SO for this one): But this is tedious and awkward. Maybe you collapse into the ol’ […]
