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Setting up Mastodon for development
I have been coding on my own Mastodon instance since 2017, the main thing I’m doing is customizing the styling. For this, it is a good idea to have a local development instance because redeploying (and rebuilding the assets) takes too long for a simple change like a different border color for some elements. In this post, I will show how I set up Mastodon for development.
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Turning a PC on and off using an ESP8266
In this post I’ll show how you can control the power state of your computer remotely using an ESP8266.
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Setting up an encrypted MQTT server on Debian/Ubuntu using mosquitto.
MQTT is a messaging protocol intended for smaller applications (in “footprint”, not necessarily scale) which is available since 1999 but is currently receiving a lot of attention since the rise of the internet of things and the need to send small messages as simply as possible. In this tutorial I will show how to install a mosquitto server on Debian/Ubuntu based systems.
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Building Apps for ODROID-GO using ESP-IDF
In this post I’ll describe how to write your own programs for the ODROID GO, a handheld gaming console featuring an ESP32.
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Automagic Minecraft Server Backups With Map Renderings Using GitLab CI and GitLab Pages
I recently set up a Minecraft server again, I usually do this by simply running the downloaded
.jar
file in a screen session. This time though, I did it a little bit better. In this post I’ll describe what I consider to be the perfect setup. -
How to build a WiFi controlled Maneki-Neko using an ESP8266
In this post I’ll show how I added WiFi remote control capability to a golden beckoning cat I’ve bought.
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How to monitor dedicated servers (IMHO)
I have been playing with monitoring applications and servers for a while now and especially like Prometheus and Grafana.
In this post I’ll explain how I monitor my servers.
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Virtual Box Command Line Cheat Sheet
Here are a few VirtualBox command line snippets I’ve collected.