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With the release of the raspberry pi 4, which features a 1.5 Ghz processor, 1-4 Gb RAM, built-in networking and USB 3.0 ports, I decided to finally take the plunge and set up a home server with the pi. In this post we will go through setting up and configuring the pi to do 2 main things: 1) function as a media center…
Hosting static websites is great. As they only contain static assets to be downloaded by the visitor’s browser - think HTML, CSS, Javascript, Fonts, images - no server-side code such as Java or PHP needs to be run. They’re therefore typically faster to load than dynamic websites, they have a smaller attack surface…
You're probably reading this page because you've attempted to access some part of my blog (Wandering Thoughts) or CSpace , the wiki thing it's part of. Unfortunately you're using a browser version that my anti-crawler precautions consider suspicious, most often because it's too old (most often this applies to versions…
There’s a sort of breathless industry-specific fact in software that goes around every so often.
CockroachDB is a newSQL database, behaving much like a traditional database while providing consistent HA and scalability out of the box.
Find out how I use a Linux Desktop PC for Cloud Native Development and for business work. I'll cover everything from parts & peripherals to CLIs and SaaS.
Now that wireguard will be part of the upcoming Linux 5.6 Kernel it’s time to see how to best integrate it with my Raspberry Pi based LTE-Router/Access Point Setup. What is my scenario? Raspberry Pi 3 with a LTE hat, using a public IP address. This will be the VPN server (called edgewalker in this post) An Android…
Alpine Linux is often recommended as a smaller, faster Docker base image. But if you’re using Python, it will slow down your build and make your image larger.
In November of last year, AWS announced the first ARM-based AWS instance type ( AWS Designed Processor: Graviton ). For me this was a very big deal because I’ve been talking about ARM based servers for more than a decade, believing that massive client volumes fund the R&D stream that feeds most server-side innovation…
What if cron and systemd had a baby? Wouldn't it be beautiful?
Kubernetes is the 800-pound gorilla of container orchestration. It powers some of the biggest deployments worldwide, but it comes with a price tag...
Google Cloud Run is the perfect deployment system for all your side projects. It is dirt cheap, fully managed serverless and scalable.
The technical and organisational decisions behind building a Kubernetes-based platform serving 1500 engineers across Adevinta’s marketplace portfolio.
Home IoT devices and programming
Malicious code can be inserted into any GitHub action, even those which are tagged.
Why can't we have nice digital things?
How the biggest cloud companies deliver the worst value
Using Makefile(s) for Go — Danish Prakash
Last time around I was looking for a large dedicated VPS in the $100/month price range. Since then I have started deploying a lot more tiny cloud instances that cost less than $10/month to run just one or two apps. So this time around I am looking for the best bang for the buck for less $10 per month. Unmanaged, of…
<p>TLDR:</p> <!-- raw HTML omitted --> <p>This will mainly be a story into how I experienced and reacted to my first real-time attack. As you may or may not ...
