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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Capsul Rollin' Onwards with a Web Application

This is a cross-post with the cyberia computer club blog. What is Capsul? Some friends from cyberia.club started out working on Capsul as a "for fun" project to host multiple VMs with diffe…
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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…
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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…
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The Most Underrated Open Source and Cross Platform Git GUI

I like to say that I "grew up" using Git GUI applications. When I started using Git, I was a novice programmer, and the Git Command Line Interface infuriated me. These days, I have more re…
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Why I Quit my Software Engineering Job

At the end of this year, I will be saying goodbye to my current employer and exchanging contact information with many of the great people who I have called my colleagues, mentors, and teammates over t…
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How to get a decrypted Wireshark packet capture from a node.js application that is talking HTTPS

I have a node.js application that is talking HTTPS with some server I don't have access to... How can I capture the traffic so that I can see the contents of the requests and responses? Yes, this has…