Hayden Barnes shares personal tech projects and essays, including an Azure Linux-based desktop concept and commentary on Microsoft and open source history. The writing is conversational, opinionated and grounded in hands-on experimentation with practical details.
Website: https://www.boxofcables.dev/
A sysadmin's practical blog covering Linux, Windows Server, game servers, Docker and self-hosting, with step-by-step troubleshooting write-ups. Readers get concrete commands, diagnosis walkthroughs and config fixes drawn from the author's own setups, such as checking PHP versions inside Docker containers and recovering GPU power on a laptop.
Shadow Codex is a technical newsletter from a long-time Shadow cloud gaming user who reimplements the client (Caligo) and ports it to Linux, macOS, Windows, Android TV and single-board computers. It also documents hands-on work such as running a modern Linux kernel and Debian on the discontinued Shadow Ghost hardware, with benchmarks and debugging detail.
Nikita Tokarchuk writes detailed, hands-on technical posts about niche engineering problems: packaging the official Claude desktop app as a Flatpak on Linux, booting Alpine Linux via direct kernel boot on an old macOS Monterey machine, and limiting charge current for a small LiPo battery in an old phone. Readers get concrete commands, file layouts, manifests and circuit reasoning they can reproduce.
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