100daysToOffload Articles

In May 2026, I started a challenge to write 100 new blog posts or pages on my website over the following year.

• /dev/null: Permission denied on Alpine Linux One of my Alpine Linux VMs broke during an upgrade and started throwing errors about the permissions on /dev/null. Just fixing the permissions didn’t persist across reboots, but resetting the device manager did.
• Count Upgradable Packages on Alpine Linux TLDR: doas apk update, then apk list -uq | wc. You can automate checking for new packages, and you can use this shell script to report how many updates are available when you log in.
• Hide Related Posts by Post Format Here’s how you can hide related posts on Asides or Links when using Contextual Related Posts or Jetpack on your blog.

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