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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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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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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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Greenhouse Development Update 2 - May

For the month of May I've recorded some screencasts and I'm going to try embedding them as HTML videos here.…
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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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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.…
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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!…
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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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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 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…