ryansouthgate.com

A blog about technology & software development, by Ryan Southgate

AI is a Race Car, Not Autopilot

AI-assisted coding is powerful, fast and easy to park in a wall

Posted by ryansouthgate on 3 Aug 2026

Self-hosting and surviving the front page of Hacker News

65k users in 24 hours, using Cloudflare to cache at the edge

Posted by ryansouthgate on 14 Apr 2026

Fixing qBittorrent in Docker, swallowing RAM and locking up the host

Fixing qBittorrent in Docker, swallowing RAM and locking up the Ubuntu Server host

Posted by ryansouthgate on 24 Feb 2026

merge-pdf.app - A free, privacy-first PDF Merging tool

Creating a free, privacy-first PDF Merging tool. How I built a privacy-first PDF merger using Vue 3 and pdf-lib that processes everything locally in your browser - keeping your data right where it belongs.

Posted by ryansouthgate on 21 Jan 2026

Goodbye Disqus - Your injected ads are horrible

Disqus turned my clean blog into an ad-riddled mess. Here’s why I pulled the plug—for your privacy and reading sanity

Posted by ryansouthgate on 30 Sep 2025

A secure & efficient Node/npm in Docker setup for frontend development

npm package vulnerabilities are increasing, and the bad guys want your data. Here is an Node in Docker setup for frontend development. Keeping you productive and your files safe

Posted by ryansouthgate on 22 Sep 2025

ZSA Moonlander - A keyboard review

A review of the ZSA Moonlander, 1 year after purchase

Posted by ryansouthgate on 15 Sep 2025

Cronjob vs systemd timers - how to create a systemd timer

cronjobs have a new contender. In this post I create a new simple systemd timer and compare with cronjobs

Posted by ryansouthgate on 11 Mar 2025

Custom C# JSON Deserialisation for Object property Types

Dealing with Object property types on C# models, with System.Text.Json, is hard. But it doesn't have to be, in this post we'll enable custom deserialisation for specific properties

Posted by ryansouthgate on 21 Feb 2025

Fixing 'cups-pki-invalid' printing error in Linux Mint/Ubuntu

Removing and generating an expired SSL Certificate for cups

Posted by ryansouthgate on 1 Nov 2024