I decided it was time to try and revive my old Cubox that has been lying around unused for a very long time. Back then it was running a custom Armbian (Debian for ARM) release from SolidRun, but SolidRun have long since abandoned the old Cubox and deleted all content from their servers. In this tutorial I'll share how I got the Cubox up and running again with the latest Linux kernel. It is currently working as a small backup server running two USB harddrives in a Btrfs mirror. https://unixsheikh
In this article I share the results of a home-lab experiment in which I threw some different problems at ZFS, Btrfs and mdadm+dm-integrity in a RAID-5 setup. https://unixsheikh.com/articles/battle-testing-zfs-btrfs-and-mdadm-dm.html
In this small tutorial we're going to install Arch Linux with ZFS on a USB stick. This can be useful if you're running a homelab NAS and you want to boot of the USB stick and only use your drives for ZFS. It can also be used as a diagnostic or administration tool for dealing with ZFS. https://unixsheikh.com/tutorials/installing-arch-linux-with-zfs-on-a-usb-stick.html
If you are thinking about abstraction, design patterns, and programming principles while you are programming, then you are not really programming. Rather you are wasting time fantasizing, not solving problems. The end goal is always to have good working code, not code that has been bent, twisted, and shoved into formations and structures in order to fulfill the vanity of someone living in a fairy tail. https://unixsheikh.com/articles/when-abstraction-design-patterns-and-principles-leads-to-spagh
Frontend developers are pushing JavaScript as though the web could not function without it. The fact is that JavaScript is one of the top reasons for security breaches on the client computer and client mobile phones, it is a plague that turns privacy into a public exhibition, and it has paralyzed the industry in such a way that you can hardly find a website that doesn't display "the white screen of death" if JavaScript has been disabled in the browser. https://unixsheikh.com/articles/stop-pushin
Some people complain about the logging capabilities of the Go standard library log package, but I not only find it adequate, I really love it. https://unixsheikh.com/articles/go-logging-that-matters.html
On Hacker News, Reddit, and elsewhere, people often ask about favorite note-taking methods. In this post I share mine. https://unixsheikh.com/articles/my-favorite-note-taking-method.html
Object-oriented programming is all about organizing of code. It is an extension of procedural programming, and it is about avoiding a global scope and about sharing resources between functions. Let's take a look at some of the object-oriented features of Go. https://unixsheikh.com/articles/go-understanding-the-object-oriented-features-with-structs-methods-and-interfaces.html
In Go you have to deal with both errors and panics and while some people consider it one of the worst things about Go, I think it demonstrates exactly how well designed and carefully crafted Go is. https://unixsheikh.com/articles/go-errors-and-panics.html
A bad trend is becoming a standard at more and more tech companies when interviewing candidates for job positions as more and more people report ridiculous code testing and absurd tech questions. https://unixsheikh.com/articles/job-interviews-in-web-development-gone-haywire.html
