https://tradik.com/ 2026-09-16T08:28:55Z https://tradik.com/blog/freebsd-ig4-lpss-touchpad/ 2026-09-16T00:00:00Z 2026-09-16T08:28:55Z

A touchpad that died on every resume turned out not to be a suspend bug at all. FreeBSD never started the I2C controller the touchpad is wired to, for three separate reasons.

https://tradik.com/blog/from-nextjs-to-ssg/ 2026-08-07T00:00:00Z 2026-08-07T21:35:48Z

tradik.com ran on Next.js with a static export: a React toolchain and a node_modules tree to publish nine pages that never change. It now runs on spagu/ssg — Markdown and YAML in, HTML out.

https://tradik.com/blog/good-fast-and-cheap/ 2020-05-18T08:45:39Z 2026-09-08T17:28:16Z

Cheap and good is long, cheap and fast is ugly, good and fast is expensive, and the middle of the diagram is marked NO. A budget conversation in one image.

https://tradik.com/blog/ways-to-upload-files-into-a-git-repository/ 2020-04-14T17:05:45Z 2026-09-08T22:15:35Z

Web editor, GUI client, command line or an IDE — the same commit made four ways, and which one suits a one-line fix versus a whole theme.

https://tradik.com/blog/freebsd-12-1-default-shell-for-jexec/ 2020-04-01T12:33:18Z 2026-09-08T17:28:16Z

chsh, .profile and a path argument all fail to give jexec a different shell. Reading jexec.c shows why, and where the hardcoded /bin/sh comes from.

https://tradik.com/blog/freebsd-jails-extending-jls/ 2020-03-31T11:06:43Z 2026-09-08T17:28:16Z

jls reports the parameters a jail was defined with, not what it is doing now. A small script adds process counts, users and live state to the same table.

https://tradik.com/blog/install-portainer-on-a-remote-machine/ 2020-03-25T15:18:13Z 2026-09-08T17:28:16Z

Portainer's setup screen is served on port 9000 and expects a browser. An SSH tunnel puts that screen on your own laptop, with no X server on the box.

https://tradik.com/blog/trigger-a-jenkins-job-from-bitbucket-pipelines/ 2020-03-03T13:54:56Z 2026-09-08T17:28:16Z

Two Jenkins plugins, a parametrised job and one curl line in bitbucket-pipelines.yml — passing the commit hash across without a webhook in sight.

https://tradik.com/blog/mattermost-5-19-on-freebsd-inside-a-jail/ 2020-02-16T23:49:58Z 2026-09-08T17:28:16Z

Self-hosting Mattermost from the FreeBSD port: the jail, the database user, TLS with Let's Encrypt behind Cloudflare, and a working server in five minutes.

https://tradik.com/blog/svn-e175002-received-fatal-alert-protocol-version/ 2020-02-08T15:41:03Z 2026-09-08T22:15:35Z

Jenkins could not check out from Subversion behind Cloudflare. The alert is a TLS version mismatch between SVNKit and a repository set to TLS 1.3.

https://tradik.com/blog/install-a-master-kubernetes-cluster-on-centos-8/ 2019-11-18T22:00:12Z 2026-09-08T17:28:16Z

The CentOS 8 walkthrough, where podman replaces docker and firewalld behaves differently — every command from a clean install to a joined worker node.

https://tradik.com/blog/filebeat-custom-nginx-logs-on-freebsd/ 2019-11-09T22:50:23Z 2026-09-08T17:28:16Z

Filebeat's Nginx module expects the default log format. Changing the grok patterns, adding a field and loading the ingest pipeline so Kibana parses your own.

https://tradik.com/blog/kubernetes-vs-docker-swarm-simple-comparison/ 2019-11-02T16:04:42Z 2026-09-08T17:28:16Z

Installation, scaling limits, load balancing, rollbacks, updates and logging, side by side — where Swarm is simpler and where Kubernetes earns the effort.

https://tradik.com/blog/install-a-master-kubernetes-cluster-on-centos-7/ 2019-10-26T10:03:43Z 2026-09-08T17:28:16Z

From the virtualisation flags a node needs to a working master: firewall rules, swap, kubeadm init, the pod network and joining the first worker.

https://tradik.com/blog/inside-an-apc-apcrbc124-ups-battery-cartridge/ 2019-10-24T10:39:03Z 2026-09-08T22:15:35Z

Eleven photographs of an APCRBC124 taken apart: the glued sticker plate, the connector holder and the two 12V sealed lead-acid cells behind it.

https://tradik.com/blog/hp-2620-24-poep-firmware-upgrade/ 2019-10-20T22:55:33Z 2026-09-08T22:15:35Z

The switch keeps a primary and a secondary image, so an upgrade has a way back. Finding the right SWI file for a J9625A and flashing it from the GUI.

https://tradik.com/blog/hp-2620-24-poep-time-and-date/ 2019-10-20T22:39:35Z 2026-09-08T22:15:35Z

Three ways to give an HP 2620-24-PoEP the right time: an NTP server found with dig, SNTP unicast, or typing it in by hand over the console.

https://tradik.com/blog/release-process-with-trunk-tags-and-branches/ 2019-03-27T17:12:53Z 2026-09-08T22:15:35Z

Who owns trunk, what a tag is for, and where a developer's branch fits — the repository layout behind a release, drawn as one diagram.

https://tradik.com/blog/captcha-simple-way-to-protect-your-website/ 2019-03-24T11:03:57Z 2026-09-08T22:15:35Z

Why an unprotected form is a target, the six habits that keep bots out, and reCAPTCHA v3 on a WordPress site in about ten minutes.

https://tradik.com/blog/colour-coding-error-categories/ 2019-03-19T23:36:15Z 2026-09-08T22:15:35Z

Three severities, three colours, and one sentence each saying what the reader is expected to do about it. The whole convention on one screen.