Blog - 2022

linuxcommand line

December 3, 2022   2 min read

Sometimes I use laptops in the home lab, and to save myself on a few watts of power usage I use these terminal commands to turn off the display, then just SSH into it from my PC.

linuxcommand line

November 25, 2022   1 min read

Configure an Ubuntu machine to autologin and go straight into the terminal on boot.

web development

November 19, 2022   5 min read

I'd been meaning to play around with Deno and finally got around to doing it in the quickest, easiest (and laziest) way possible -- using a minimal blog template. I also took the opportunity to learn how Deno Deploy works. The whole thing is quick and painless, here's how to do it.

androidsmb

November 7, 2022   5 min read

There are many File Managers/File Explorers on the Google Play Store, but I wanted to easily access the Samba share on my server while on my home network. Solid Explorer is the solution I went with and it works well, so here is a quick guide to setting it up.

self-hostingdocker

November 4, 2022   2 min read

FileBrowser is a self-hosted file manager for a specified directory in a Linux machine that lets you upload, download, move, copy, create, delete, rename, and edit your files in a nice web interface through your browser. Here's a quick guide to setting it up in Docker.

gitlinux

October 30, 2022   3 min read

Generating and using a GPG key is not difficult, but every time I need to remember how to do it to sign my commits from a new machine, I need to go through several pages of explanation on GitHub. So I made myself a terse and concise one-page quick guide, here it is.

networkinglinux

October 29, 2022   3 min read

Network File Share or NFS allows sharing directories between Linux hosts on the same network, similar to Samba though it has better performance with small and medium-sized files comparatively. Here's a quick guide on setting up an NFS share between Linux hosts.

dockerself-hosting

October 20, 2022   3 min read

When running a headless home server, you may want to set up a monitoring solution to keep track of your server's performance. Node Exporter will expose your server's metrics, cAdvisor will expose metrics for Docker containers, and Prometheus will scrape and collect those metrics, which is then used as a data source for Grafana dashboards. Here's how to get it all set up in Docker.

self-hostingdocker

October 18, 2022   5 min read

Plex is a popular media server for self-hosting, but it's not open source and recently locked the ability to remotely stream your own content behind a paywall, so one cannot be blamed for seeking an alternative to Plex. Jellyfin is a free and open source self-hosted media server that just might be what you're looking for.

self-hostingplexdocker

October 17, 2022   3 min read

Plex Media Server is one of the most popular services to self-host since serves your personal media library -- videos, music and even photos -- with a nice Netflix-like UI. Though you can install and run it bare-metal, the most common and easiest way is in a Docker container. Here's how.

debianlinuxcommand line

October 14, 2022   3 min read

If you want your Linux machine to stay up-to-date on important security updates, but you don't want to SSH into it all the time to run updates and would rather set it and forget it, this is the way.

powershellcommand line

October 9, 2022   1 min read

I'm much more comfortable using Bash over PowerShell, but there are definitely times that you need to use command line on Windows. So I keep a small, but growing list of my most commonly used cmdlets, their Linux-like aliases, and other must-know commands.

linuxcommand line

October 8, 2022   2 min read

Just a quick guide to format and partition hard drives in Linux command line that I wrote for myself a long time ago, and recently had to reference again.

self-hostingpi-hole

October 8, 2022   20 min read

Besides just using a browser extension for ad blocking, I've been using Pi-Hole for years to prevent all devices on my network from getting ads, and stopping smart home devices from phoning home for telemetry and tracking. Pi-Hole will run on almost anything that can run Linux, is very easy to set up, and super effective with the right blocklists.

networkingdebian

October 7, 2022   3 min read

Debian's non-graphical install does not give you the option to set a static IP, here's a quick guide to doing it manually on the command line.

web development

October 5, 2022   3 min read

Although I love using Netlify to host my site, for testing out sites and simple apps I have fallen in love with Surge.sh, a ridiculously simple web hosting solution that works entirely from the command line.

linuxcommand line

October 4, 2022   2 min read

I sometimes use old laptops as headless servers in my homelab when I want to test something on Linux, or play around with a new distribution, and I prefer to keep them closed so they take up less space. A few quick commands will keep the laptop even on with the lid closed.

powershellcommand line

October 1, 2022   3 min read

While I use Zsh with Oh-My-Zsh for making my Linux terminal pretty, it's not available for Windows. Luckily it's brother from another mother Oh-My-Posh basically does the same thing for Windows Terminal and PowerShell.

self-hostingdocker

September 29, 2022   2 min read

I've been running a bunch of services on my home server in docker containers for a few years now. It's quick and easy to set up once you get used to it. Here's a quick and dirty guide to installing Docker and Docker Compose, and getting several containers up and running.

linuxcommand line

September 26, 2022   2 min read

Using the Secure Copy utility in Linux lets you securely transfer files to and from remote hosts via the SSH protocol, it comes with every Linux distribution, and it's very easy to use.

web developmentmarkdown

September 20, 2022   2 min read

Markdown can render A LOT of characters and symbols using specific 'entities', and can do other things like render tables, so I made myself a list of common or handy, but easy-to-forget markdown hacks based off the official Markdown Guide.

linuxcommand line

September 18, 2022   3 min read

Just a quick cheat sheet of basic and slightly less basic Linux commands, as well as handy keyboard shortcuts, that I maintain for myself since I can't always remember them all.

linuxcommand line

September 17, 2022   2 min read

Whenever I use Vim to edit files on Linux, I need to relearn how to use it. Years ago I found a thread on Stack Overflow with two simple and extremely useful answers that helped me make sense of Vim. So here it is.

web development

September 9, 2022   1 min read

I wanted to style my <kbd> element to look like a keyboard, and a google search took me to someone else's blog post that had a nice bit of code and invited others to steal it. So I did.

linuxansible

September 3, 2022   5 min read

Ansible is an IT tool that enables Infrastructure as Code, letting you automate provisioning, configuration, management and deployment of services and applications. I like using it at a fraction of it's full power to bootstrap fresh installs of Linux for my homelab.

linuxcommand line

April 20, 2022   2 min read

If you find yourself using the sudo command a lot and are tired of typing your password constantly, you can make the password prompt go away by editting a single line in one configuration file.

web development

January 7, 2022   5 min read

Frameworks and libraries are great and all, but sometimes you just want to make a simple website with only HTML, CSS and JavaScript — maybe without the latter even. When making a PWA, it’s common to use a framework like Vue or a library like Workbox, which requires a bundler like Webpack. In truth, that’s completely unnecessary!