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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…
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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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picopublish

For those times when you want to easily host a file on the Internet but you also want control over its Content-Type header. picopublish…
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webclip: scp for the lazy system operator

When Virtual Machine virtualization and linux container virtualization are being used at the same time, it can become difficult to transfer a file from a remote machine in a oneliner. I created this s…