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Greenhouse development update 1

I have been striving to work on greenhouse every day. Of course, I can't always meet that standard, but I believe I've gotten more done than my activity heatmap might indicate, as I have a bad habit of working on elements and features for more than a day before I commit them.…

On Apr 06, 2021
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Creating a Simple but Effective Outbound "Firewall" using Vanilla Docker-Compose

This is great for inbound connections, but it does nothing to control outbound connections. ...I would much rather find a way to control outbound connections using the vanilla docker and docker-compose features. So that's what I set out to do, and that's where the internal networks come into play.…

On Mar 13, 2021
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Server & Website Updates

I just finished migrating sequentialread.com to an ODROID HC1, plus tons of updates to my infrastructure & apps!…

On Mar 10, 2021
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How to Host a Stream with Owncast on a low-powered Server

Last week, I started streaming my programming work every day using cyberia's shared streaming service, stream.cyberia.club. They had been using open streaming platform in the past, but it was a bit cl…

On Feb 14, 2021
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The "Pragmatic Path" 4-Year Update: Introducing Greenhouse!

See the next post in this series: Greenhouse development update 1 When I started this blog in 2015, I was just playing around. I published a few small technical guides, cross-posted a couple articles…

On Feb 13, 2021
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Understanding the Secure Shell Protocol (SSH)

This post was written as a how-to guide for the capsul cloud compute provider by cyberia.club! SSH is a very old tool, created back when the internet was a different place, with different use cases…

On Jan 30, 2021
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How to connect to a remote redis server securely with TLS

Redis doesn't ship with TLS support out of the box, a heinous omission to be sure. TLS support can be enabled by compiling a custom build yourself, but the official "Securing Redis" guide re…

On Oct 04, 2020
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How to prevent backblaze session from timing out & stay logged in

I have been working on a project that uses Backblaze B2 object storage, I really like the service, but I have been frustrated by the user interface. They automatically log the user out after 5 minutes…

On Sep 23, 2020
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How to Get Started with ServiceWorker

I just released a new version of my password manager which replaces the old and deprecated application cache (for offline operation) with the new ServiceWorker API. In the process, I learned a few im…

On Jul 08, 2020
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Capsul Rollin' Onwards with a Web Application

This is a cross-post with the cyberia computer club blog. Next post in this series: Capsul - Rumors of my Demise have been Greatly Exaggerated What is Capsul? Some friends from cyberia.club started…

On May 21, 2020
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Inquiry Into Radioactivity Simulators Open Sourced!

When I was younger, I worked with my dad on a project he was doing for his job. He is a Physics teacher and he had received a grant to write a new curriculum unit for teaching radioactivity and radiat…

On Mar 02, 2020
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Register a Namecoin .bit Domain easily, using Electrum-NMC

Namecoin is an old crypto-currency, one of the original forks of Bitcoin. It still exists today and has good security, primarily because it can be merge-mined with Bitcoin. This means that Namecoin…

On Feb 07, 2020
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