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Level UI • 1 day • in Articles • 9 min read
An MCP server is not a new API. It is a thin layer over the one you already have
Somewhere in the last year, "do we need an MCP server?" joined the list of questions that arrive in a brief before anyone has said what the thing is for. It is usually framed as MCP vs API, as though the Model Context Protocol were a newer kind of AP...
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  • ai
  • api
  • webdev
  • security
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BashSnippets • Jul 8 • in Tutorials • 5 min read
Your Cron Job Works. That's Not the Same as Surviving Cron.
Level: Intermediate · Time: 7 min · Outcome: A mental model and three guards for unattended cron jobs There's a gap between a script that works when you run it and a script that survives running unattended for a year. The first only has to succeed o...
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  • bash
  • linux
  • devops
  • bash-scripting
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BashSnippets • Jun 25 • in Articles • 4 min read
# My Backup Hadn't Run in 9 Days and Nothing Told Me
My Backup Hadn't Run in 9 Days and Nothing Told Me Level: Intermediate · Time: 5 min · Outcome: A cron command that can't hang forever The backup ran fine every night for fourteen months, and then it didn't run for nine days, and nothing told me. ...
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  • bash
  • linux
  • devops
  • bash-scripting
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BashSnippets • Jun 22 • in Tutorials • 4 min read
# A Cron Job Took Our Server to Load 41 by Attacking Itself
A /1 rsync took our staging box to a load average of 41 one afternoon, and it took me longer than I want to admit to work out why. The sync normally finished in about twenty seconds. That day the backup target's NFS mount went sluggish, the sync star...
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  • bash
  • linux
  • devops
  • bash-scripting
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BashSnippets • Jun 21 • in Articles • 6 min read
A Function Without local Overwrote My Variable and rm -rf Deleted the Wrong Directory
> Bash variables are global by default, so a helper function clobbered the caller's path variable and rm -rf cleaned up the wrong directory. local, return-as-status, and getopts — all in one incident. Tags: #bash #linux #scripting #devops The ...
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  • linux
  • bash-scripting
  • devops
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BashSnippets • Jun 19 • in Articles • 6 min read
The Alert Never Fired Because the Loop Skipped the Last Line of the File
We kept a plaintext file of hostnames, one per line, and a monitoring script read the file and pinged each host every five minutes. When a host failed to respond, the script sent an email alert. The system had been running for months and it worked — ...
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  • bash
  • linux
  • bash-scripting
  • scripting
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BashSnippets • May 7 • in Tutorials • 2 min read
Stop Guessing 'chmod' I Built A Free Visual Permissions Builder for Linux
The Problem You're deploying a script and need the right file permissions. You type chmod 754... or was it 744? You Google it. You find a Stack Overflow thread from 2011. You get it wrong anyway. chmod's octal notation is one of those things every...
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  • bash
  • linux
  • bash-scripting
  • beginners
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BashSnippets • May 6 • in Articles • 2 min read
Bash exit codes 0-255: what they mean and how to write the handler
$? holds the exit code of the last command that ran. You've seen it. You've probably checked it. What you might not have is a reliable reference for what each value actually means — and more importantly, what to do about it in your script. Here's t...
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  • bash
  • bash-scripting
  • linux
  • beginner
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Tom Smithverified • 1 day • in Articles • 9 min read
Developer Weekly Briefing — October 30, 2026
Security dominated this week, but not in the usual way. Two active campaigns turned GitHub configuration files into attack surfaces. Researchers demonstrated that the built-in browsers inside AI coding tools can read your SSH keys. And at Oracle AI ...
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  • agenticai
  • devsecops
  • github
  • localai
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BashSnippets • May 6 • in Tutorials • 2 min read
The 4 things every cronjob needs that most tutorials skip
Cron job tutorials have a problem. They teach you the five-field syntax, show you a couple of examples like 0 2 , and send you on your way. What they don't cover is everything that needs to go around the expression for the job to actually work rel...
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  • bash-scripting
  • webdev
  • sysadmin
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Gift Balogun • Mar 20 • in Tutorials • 3 min read
Bash Script to Automatically Renew and Reload SSL Certificates
Keeping your website secure isn’t optional anymore. Users expect it, browsers enforce it, and search engines reward it. SSL certificates are a core part of that security, but managing them manually can quickly become a headache, especially when they ...
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  • bash-scripting
  • brutecode
  • ssl
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Gift Balogun • Mar 18 • in Tutorials • 3 min read
How to Create a CLI Tool Using Bash: A Practical Guide for Developers
Command line tools are the backbone of productivity for developers, system administrators, and DevOps engineers. From automating repetitive tasks to managing servers efficiently, a well built CLI tool can save hours of manual work. If you’ve ever wa...
  • devops
  • cli
  • brutecode
  • bash-scripting
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Gift Balogun • Mar 4 • in Tutorials • 4 min read
Timeout Handling in Bash: Preventing Hanging Scripts in Production
Nothing is more frustrating than a Bash script that just… hangs. No errors. No logs. No output. Just a stuck process quietly consuming resources while your deployment pipeline waits indefinitely. If you're a backend developer, DevOps engineer, or s...
  • bash-scripting
  • brutecode
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Gift Balogun • Feb 20 • in Articles • 3 min read
AI for Writing Better Bash Scripts
Bash scripting has always been one of the most powerful and intimidating tools in a developer’s toolkit. It’s lightweight, fast, and deeply integrated into Linux systems. But let’s be honest: writing clean, safe, and maintainable Bash scripts can be ...
  • brutecode
  • ai
  • bash-scripting
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Gift Balogun • Jan 16 • in Articles • 4 min read
Bash Scripting in 2026: What Still Matters (and What Doesn’t)
Every few years, someone declares Bash “dead.” And yet here we are in 2026 still relying on Bash scripts to deploy applications, automate servers, glue systems together, and keep production running at 3 a.m. Bash scripting hasn’t disappeared. It ha...
  • devops
  • brutecode
  • bash-scripting
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Gift Balogun • Jan 1 • in Articles • 1 min read
Welcome to 2026, Bash Scripting Legends!
New year, new opportunities, new scripts to automate our lives. To everyone in this Bash Scripting Group — welcome to 2026! This is the year we write cleaner scripts, break fewer servers, automate smarter, and finally stop copy-pasting that same cro...
  • devops
  • bash-scripting
  • brutecode
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Gift Balogun • Dec 27, 2025 • in Articles • 1 min read
Hello World! Welcome to the Bash Scripting Group!
We’re excited to have you here This group is a space for learning, sharing, and collaborating around Bash scripting, Linux automation, and command-line productivity. Whether you’re just getting started with shell scripts or you’ve been automating ...
  • devops
  • bash-scripting
  • brutecode
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Gift Balogun • Dec 10, 2025 • in Tutorials • 3 min read
Understanding Systemctl: How to Create & Manage Your Own Linux Services
Managing processes manually on Linux can get messy—especially when you’re working on production servers, automation pipelines, or applications that need to run reliably in the background. That’s where systemctl and systemd services come in. With them...
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  • devops
  • brutecode
  • bash-scripting
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durojayeolusegun • Oct 2, 2025 • in Launches • 1 min read
CloudRay
Your #1 centralised Bash script automation platform...
  • bash-scripting
  • automation
  • server-management
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