Development
astro-feedback-board: anonymous feedback for Astro sites
Anonymous, moderated feedback, votes and dev.to-style reactions for Astro sites, served by one Cloudflare Worker with a small admin panel.
#Astro#Cloudflare#open source+2
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Development
astro-syndicate: syndicate your blog posts to dev.to automatically
An Astro integration that syndicates posts to dev.to at build time: uploads images, skips unchanged posts via a content hash, drafts new ones first.
#Astro#dev.to#open source+2
Development
astro-gallery: six image gallery components for Astro
A folder-driven Astro gallery package: justified and editorial layouts, a responsive grid, a slideshow, an EXIF-date timeline and a GDPR-friendly photo map.
#Astro#TypeScript#open source+2
Development
astro-seo-enforcer: fail the build on SEO regressions
An Astro integration that parses your final static HTML and fails the build on SEO violations: short titles, missing h1, thin meta, broken links.
#Astro#SEO#CI+3
lifeanimals
When Dogs Die
A personal tribute to my Labrador Carlo: saying goodbye, grief, and the years of walks and small moments that stay with you.
#dog#grief#memories+1
Development
Gesture Detection in Patioplanner: From Proximity Sensor to Image Diffing
Three approaches to hand gesture detection for Patioplanner: proximity sensors, camera brightness, and image diffing. Only one worked reliably.
#patioplanner#Gesture Detection#Camera API+1
DIY
First Time Paving: From Jungle to Front Yard
How an overgrown front yard became a paved entrance, including one very stubborn yew tree and an overloaded Tiguan.
#Paving#DIY#patioplanner
homelab
The 35-Watt Roommate (Part 8): Umami Analytics, or How a Password with Special Characters Broke Everything
How I self-hosted Umami Analytics, why PostgreSQL hated my password, and what Cloudflare Access does to tracking endpoints.
#homelab#docker#umami+4
cloud
JVM Monitoring for Denodo on ECS Fargate with JMX Exporter and CloudWatch
How to get Java JVM metrics from Denodo on ECS Fargate into CloudWatch using the Prometheus JMX Exporter when the native JMX integration won't work.
#aws#ecs-fargate#jmx+5
dockersecurity
Docker Secrets with SOPS and age, deployed through Portainer
How to manage Docker Secrets with SOPS, age and Portainer, instead of typing passwords into the UI after every deploy.
#docker-secrets#sops#age+4
CloudflareSecurity
Locking down private services with Cloudflare Access
Cloudflare Access puts private services behind authentication without exposing them to the public internet.
#Cloudflare#Access#Security+3
homelab
The 35-Watt Roommate (Part 7): Goodbye Fritz!Box, Hello Ubiquiti
How I replaced my Fritz!Box 7690 with a Ubiquiti Cloud Gateway Ultra. WAN configuration, VLAN setup, and whether the ISP even notices.
#ubiquiti#ucgultra#fritzbox+4
Development
Screen Prank Locker: A macOS Prank App Built with Swift
How I built a macOS prank app that locks the screen with transparent overlays, blocks all input, and trolls anyone who touches your computer.
#Swift#macOS#Prank+2
homelab
The 35-Watt Roommate (Part 6): Ads? Never Heard of Them.
How I turned AdGuard Home into a network-wide ad and tracking blocker with Docker Macvlan, dual-stack IPv6, and Traefik integration.
#adguard#docker#macvlan+4
homelab
The 35-Watt Roommate (Part 5): Monitoring, or 'Why is the internet constantly asking for my .php files?'
Keeping an eye on the homelab with Grafana and Loki, and blocking the bots that keep scanning for PHP files.
#homelab#docker#monitoring+3
homelab
The 35-Watt Roommate (Part 4): Docker Cleanup and Surgical Data Recovery
How I got my Gitea data back after a Docker cleanup deleted the volume, by extracting it straight from a Proxmox backup.
#homelab#docker#proxmox+3
homelab
The 35-Watt Roommate (Part 3): Middle-earth and the Digital Infarction
How an Intel i219-LM network card in power-saving mode brought down the entire LAN and how I fixed it with kernel tuning.
#proxmox#networking#lenovo-thinkcentre+3
homelab
The 35-Watt Roommate (Part 2): The Cloud in a Cabinet
How I securely expose my self-hosted services to the internet using Cloudflare Tunnels, without opening a single port on my router.
#cloudflare-tunnel#zero-trust#docker-compose+5
homelab
The 35-Watt Roommate (Part 1): From Memory Hunger to Mini Powerhouse
How a memory problem on my NAS led me to build an energy-efficient home lab with a Lenovo ThinkCentre M920q.
#proxmox#docker#portainer+5
Development
Conway's Game of Life: how simple rules create complexity
Why Conway's Game of Life keeps my attention, and what it shows about complexity coming out of a few simple rules.
#Game of Life#Emergence#TypeScript+2
Development
howtolosemoneyfast.com: what the lottery actually costs you
A free web tool that adds up what you have spent on the lottery and compares it with an ETF over the same period.
#Lottery#Personal Finance#Web App+4
20254 posts
homelabdockercloudflare
Gitea and Jellyfin on a Synology NAS via Cloudflare Tunnel
Running a private Git instance and a media server on a Synology NAS, reachable through a Cloudflare Tunnel with no port forwarding.
#gitea#jellyfin#cloudflare+2
DevelopmentSecurity
Solving Let's Encrypt Challenges with SCP for Limited Web Hosting
How I created a Go-based tool that uses SCP to solve Let's Encrypt HTTP-01 challenges for web hosts without API access.
#golang#letsencrypt#acme+3
Development
Designing my garden house in Python with CadQuery
How I used CadQuery, a Python CAD scripting framework, to design a small garden house instead of fighting a GUI.
#CAD#Python#CadQuery+3
Development
Showing my father what playing Eurojackpot really costs
A Python script that checks Eurojackpot tickets against past draws and adds up what the habit costs over time.
#Python#Lottery#Eurojackpot+2
20242 posts
codemp3
Adding cover art to my daughter's MuPiBox
A short Python script that pulls the embedded cover art from her MP3s and saves it as cover.jpg per album.
#python#MuPiBox#mp3+1
codeautomotive
Recovering a lost RNS 510 radio code with a Python script
How I brute-forced the lost four-digit PIN of an RNS 510 over its serial port with a small Python script.
#python#vw#rns510+4
20222 posts
configuration
Debug streamlit app in vscode
A VS Code launch config for debugging Streamlit apps: it runs the streamlit module, not the current file, so your breakpoints hit.
#python#vscode#streamlit+1
tutorial
Use golang library with python
How to export Go code as a C-Library and write a Python wrapper to reuse Go functionality in Python.
#golang#wrapper#python+1
20211 posts
20204 posts
go
Pass by value or pointer?
When to pass a Go type by value vs by pointer, which built-in reference types never need a pointer, and what benchmarks reveal about the real cost.
#go#pointers#reference+1
tutorial
Decrypt travis file in github repository
A workaround for decrypting Travis CI secret files: a throwaway branch plus the built-in decrypt step ship the plaintext out over FTP/SFTP from the CI job.
#travis#github#decrypt
tutorial
Isolate FritzBox network from OpenWrt guest WiFi
How to block traffic between FritzBox and OpenWrt guest WiFi network using firewall zone configuration.
#openwrt#iptables#FritzBox
tutorial
Flashing Archer c6 with OpenWrt 19.07
Step-by-step guide to flashing OpenWrt 19.07 onto a TP-Link Archer C6 v2 via TFTP recovery when the OEM web interface rejects the firmware image.
#openwrt#Archer c6