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Using v2ray with Caddy to Access the Internet in China

I did witness some of my co-travelers getting blocked at various points, but even after that happened, onboarding them to my system solved these issues and did not precipitate any issues for them or for my services.…
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Cross-Platform Statically Compiled Way to Read HEIC Images

There are tons of excellent peices of software out there for handling images -- Krita, ImageMagick, and others. However, as far as I can tell, none of them natively support HEIC images. Frankly, it's a very bad vibes situation.…
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Matrix Synapse Out of Disk Space state_groups_state

You log in with your matrix account, And then you can see what's using disk space. if there are any big rooms, you can delete them, including deleting the state_groups_state rows…
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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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🥳 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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How I optimized my Owncast Stream to run on a Raspberry Pi part 2

...my workstation CPU is a lot cooler, I don't get keyboard drop-outs while I'm typing any more and I think the stream quality is also improved even though the video bit rate is lower, since it's only being encoded once now instead of twice.…
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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.…
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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…
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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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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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TurtleJS: Learn Programming Basics in Your Browser

A simple JavaScript clone of the LOGO drawing language. Write turtle graphics programs that generate SVG images in your browser. http://git.sequentialread.com/forest/turtlejs…