A sweating Trafotin with a cartoon crack in his back with the logos of Docker, nginx, Cloudflare, and Traefik.

It's Impossible to Self-Host Anything "Correctly"

Why it鈥檚 insurmountable to self-host this website. If it wasn鈥檛 for YouTube and Patreon, I鈥檇 shut it down forever.

August 26, 2025 路 10 min 路 Trafotin
Me smugly shrugging my shoulders over speech bubbles depicting Linux drama

Why Does Linux Have So Much Drama?!

The Linux community seems like it鈥檚 filled with so much drama! How do we make sense of it all? Is Fedora going to kill my games? Did you hear the latest thing Linus said? Is GNOME really blocking all Wayland progress? Let鈥檚 analyze if an issue was worth our time or not and how Linux news has dire consequences to Linux鈥檚 developers.

July 14, 2025 路 11 min 路 Trafotin
Jordan Petridis talking with Trafotin and Winward laughing

Debugging Desktop Linux and Its Users With GNOME's Jordan Petridis

I got speak with GNOME鈥檚 release manager Jordan Petridis, his journey into open source development, the work GNOME has done with Flatpak and accessibility, and how open source developers deal with harrassment from Linux losers.

June 23, 2025 路 3 min 路 Trafotin, Jordan Petridis
Craig Federighi about to run Trafotin over with a car. The text reads: Apple never makes mistakes...

Trafotin Watches: Apple WWDC 2025

Tariff-strained and AI-addled Apple attempts to claw back investors and users by changing their interface to hideous glass icons and inserting recycled Apple Intelligence features everyone forgot existed.

June 16, 2025 路 1 min 路 Trafotin
Trafotin screaming at the GoDaddy, Namecheap, and Cloudflare logos.

Buying Domain Names Blows Big Time!

Want to get started with self-hosting? The first thing you need to do is buy a domain name. Turns out, there鈥檚 a ton of things nobody talks about, especially when it comes to safeguarding your data.

June 9, 2025 路 11 min 路 Trafotin