Jiff Slater

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Updated: 18 December 2021

This is the home of Jiff Slater. In a few words, I'm a technical writer, product manager, systems administrator, and FOSS advocate. On this blog you'll find a mix of: opinions on technical topics, tutorials for system management, and notes about my preferences, habits, and wants. While the site is constantly being updated you'll find some rough edges here and there -- but I think that's what makes me, me.

A prime directive for this site is simplicity. So you won't find JavaScript or cookies (although very tasty) nor heavy animations. Where possible, each page is a single file and can also be downloaded as a PDF for later viewing. This functionality is coming soon.

Recent posts

• Sharing storage between containers: using an exFAT loopback as a shared volume.
• Creating an unprivileged Firefox LXC container on a non-SystemD host: running Firefox with less of an attack surface and in a more portable way with Linux containers.
• Converting an existing Mediawiki installation to a systemd-nspawn container: bringing your system services deeper into the systemd rabbit hole.
• SystemD Killing Background User Processes: a discussion how some strange Mosh behaviour made me realise why screen wasn't working.
• Creating a Local Certificate Authority: a short guide on preparing a root certificate authority for local or intra development