Self-Hosting

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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!

When I started this blog in 2015, I was just playing around. I published a few small technical guides, cross-posted a couple articles I was paid to write for my employer's blog, and even the occasiona…
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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 different operat…
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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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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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Password Manager 1.1.0

https://pwm.sequentialread.com/ A simple, fault-tolerant, and easy-to-audit password manager. https://git.sequentialread.com/forest/sequentialread-password-manager Mobile Device Support Better behav…
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ServiceWorker + WebRTC... The p2p web solution I have been looking for!?

In my previous post Pragmatic Path Towards Non-technical Users Owning Their Own Data I talked about how hard it is to host web applications on your own hardware, at home, or on a mobile device such as…
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Wrote a Libre Password Manager this weekend

I've always been a paranoid person around computers, and I've wanted to start using a password manager for a while, but the only cloud-based one which seemed trustworthy (1Password) costs money and is…
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Docker on ODROID XU4: Installation and Creating a Base Image

I have been interested in ARM-based SBCs (Single Board Computer)s for a while -- especially as they become more and more capable/compatible. In the world of cloud computing, I think they are especiall…
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Pragmatic Path Towards Non-technical Users Owning Their Own Data

I don't have a statistic, but I assume that the vast majority of the applications and content that the average user interacts with these days goes through a web browser at some point. If your app d…