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Federation vs. Clustering: Self-determination vs. distributed computing?

Self-hosting is such a shitty term because it sorta implies that you do it all by yourself. Not only is that unrealistic, it's also a lot less fun... I'm still trying to figure out what I want to build, let alone what to call it.…
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Greenhouse Retrospective and Future

I think the short, pithy description on homebrewserver.club might summarize it best: Take the ‘home’ in homebrew literally and the ‘self’ in self-hosting figuratively…
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When It Does Not Listen for Thee, Ask for Whom the Server Listens (Understanding Listening Addresses)

Why isn't it working? Why can't we connect? .... The first step is to figure out whether or not the application is listening or not, and if so, what listening address(es) it's using.…
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Homebrew Unsweetened Grapefruit Energy Drink

No, I'm not changing this into a food blog, but I have been taking a break from working on my software projects for a couple months now while I'm trying to take care of my health..…
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What is a Process? (Operating Systems)

All typical operating systems (MacOS, Windows, Linux, BSD, and others) have a notion of a "Process", and there are far more similarities than differences...…
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Capsul - Rumors of my Demise have been Greatly Exaggerated

..just to make 100% sure that the maintenance we were doing would succeed & maintain stability for everyone who has placed thier trust in us and voted with thier shells, investing thier time and money on virtual machines that we maintain on a volunteer basis.…
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🥳 Greenhouse Enters Alpha Test Phase!! 🎉

Besides that, I don't feel like writing any more description or introduction to what you are about to witness. [...] enjoy the demo video, and please give me feedback if you decide to try out the service!…
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Managing Child Processes with Golang: Linux, Windows, and MacOS

Just a quick post to go over some problems / frustrations I've had with golang's exec.Command and os.Process APIs during my live stream, as well as how I eventually solved them. ProcessState is a big…
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Greenhouse Update 4 - September

I managed to get the `greenhouse-daemon` (called `greenhouse-background-service` on windows 😇) installing as a windows service via the NSIS installer, ...…
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Using Jitsi Meet with OBS to bring guests on your stream

recently, just out of curiosity, I tried again with a newer version of Jitsi Meet, and it worked! The OBS embedded browser was able to get into the Jitsi call, no prompt, no problem...…
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Greenhouse Update 3 - August

I do think that my application is a lot more compelling this time; I have a demo I can show, and my project is a lot more unique and specialized, providing something that REALLY does not exist currently.…
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Building a Spatial Index Supporting Range Query using Space Filling Hilbert Curve

Like Grant showed, it's continuous from order `n` to order `n+1`, meaning that scaling it down won't move anything around; in terms of percentages, both the 2D -> 1D and 1D -> 2D transformations will look exactly the same. After fixing a few bugs, it was "scrolling like butta" before my very eyes!…