Reading List

The most recent articles from a list of feeds I subscribe to.

Debugging VLANs on my TP-Link Managed Switch

I recently bought my first-ever managed networking switch, a TP-Link JetStream TL-SG3428X.

The main feature of a managed switch is that it lets you segment your network into VLANs. I was excited about this functionality, but it took me hours of trial and error to get VLANs working.

I found TP-Link’s VLAN documentation lacking, so I’m sharing my notes in case they’re helpful to others.

100% test coverage

100% test coverage is annoying as hell, but probably good.

Blogs, more than ever

It’s been an odd few days with the changes on Reddit and Twitter – the only two major social media platforms I browse.

Platforms are great portals for discovery, but a guarantee for longevity is not their strong suit. And while the fediverse is interesting, my Mastodon experience feels more like a detox than something that stands on its own.

As for good content, I get most of that from blogs anyway. And as long as the internet exists as we know it, we’ll always have them.

Here’s a selection of my favorite blogs and sites from my RSS reader.


Our Spatie company site doesn’t have an RSS feed, but our products each have a blog of their own. Subscribe to their feeds if you want to stay up to date with Flare, Mailcoach, and Ray.

Blogs, more than ever

It's been an odd few days with the changes on Reddit and Twitter – the only two major social media platforms I browse.

Platforms are great portals for discovery, but a guarantee for longevity is not their strong suit. And while the fediverse is interesting, my Mastodon experience feels more like a detox than something that stands on its own.

As for good content, I get most of that from blogs anyway. And as long as the internet exists as we know it, we'll always have them.

Here's a selection of my favorite blogs and sites from my RSS reader.


Our Spatie company site doesn't have an RSS feed, but our products each have a blog of their own. Subscribe to their feeds if you want to stay up to date with Flare, Mailcoach, and Ray.

Reading tweets without being logged in

Update: nitter is broken right now . OK, Twitter.com now doesn’t allow you to read tweets without being logged in. You can circumvent the need to login by changing twitter.com to nitter.it though. So https://twitter.com/codepo8/status/1674835360516390912 becomes https://nitter.it/codepo8/status/1674835360516390912 .