Jack Palauskas

Sometimes I like to make things.


Setting WordPress File & Folder Permissions on Linux

In my time of managing large quantities of WordPress sites, an almost universal mistake that I see from sites that added to my portfolio of managed sites are Administrators who incorrectly set the file and folder permissions of their WordPress instances. It has gotten to a point where I prefer to assume that the file […]

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On the Causality of Naming Conventions

Identifiers in systems infrastructure and their consequence in software systems is something that cannot be overstated. One disorganized engineer erroneously ignoring naming conventions can be the difference between a clean, unified and organized system, or spaghetti. To that end, I have reflected on the importance of naming conventions over the years and their structure within […]

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On the emergence of zero-trust SDNs

As systems grow in infrastructural complexity, and the push for brand-lock avoidance grows within the Enterprise, new tech stacks continue to emerge for zero-trust Software Defined Networking. How does one connect two services together safely without exposing traffic unsheathed to the open internet? Zero-Trust SDNs have emerged ways to both orchestrate and encapsulate the flow […]

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How to Handle NixOS Desktop in the Enterprise

NixOS has been growing rapidly in popularity within the Linux Community, and for good reason. The ability to declare reproducible builds quickly has proven to be immensely useful. NixOS is over 20 years old at this point, and has stood the test of time as an Enterprise-Ready Linux Distro amongst the Debian flavors and RHEL-like […]

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Deploying NixOS on Proxmox with Cloud-init

Back in 2007, I deployed a Hypervisor for the first time on VMware Elastic Sky (ESXi) 3.5. I’ll never forget the excitement of being able to run multiple virtual computers inside of a box. Watching the barriers between hardware and software evaporate into raw abstraction was something magical. I was no longer limited to my […]

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Donkeys, Farmalls, and Generative Transformers

There has been an obsession lately with the use of Generative Pre-Trained Transformers (Commonly known as GPTs, such as ChatGPT), and the supposed fear of mass job loss as a result of a proposed emergence of a proposed super-AI or some type of Artificial General Intelligence. While I think this makes for catchy, attention grabbing […]

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