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Cross-Platform Statically Compiled Way to Read HEIC Images

There are tons of excellent peices of software out there for handling images -- Krita, ImageMagick, and others. However, as far as I can tell, none of them natively support HEIC images. Frankly, it's a very bad vibes situation.…
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Matrix Synapse Out of Disk Space state_groups_state

You log in with your matrix account, And then you can see what's using disk space. if there are any big rooms, you can delete them, including deleting the state_groups_state rows…
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Greenhouse Retrospective and Future

I think the short, pithy description on homebrewserver.club might summarize it best: Take the ‘home’ in homebrew literally and the ‘self’ in self-hosting figuratively…
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🥳 Greenhouse Enters Alpha Test Phase!! 🎉

Besides that, I don't feel like writing any more description or introduction to what you are about to witness. [...] enjoy the demo video, and please give me feedback if you decide to try out the service!…
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Greenhouse Update 4 - September

I managed to get the `greenhouse-daemon` (called `greenhouse-background-service` on windows 😇) installing as a windows service via the NSIS installer, ...…
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Greenhouse Update 3 - August

I do think that my application is a lot more compelling this time; I have a demo I can show, and my project is a lot more unique and specialized, providing something that REALLY does not exist currently.…
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Greenhouse Development Update 2 - May

For the month of May I've recorded some screencasts and I'm going to try embedding them as HTML videos here.…
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Greenhouse development update 1

I have been striving to work on greenhouse every day. Of course, I can't always meet that standard, but I believe I've gotten more done than my activity heatmap might indicate, as I have a bad habit of working on elements and features for more than a day before I commit them.…
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Creating a Simple but Effective Outbound "Firewall" using Vanilla Docker-Compose

This is great for inbound connections, but it does nothing to control outbound connections. ...I would much rather find a way to control outbound connections using the vanilla docker and docker-compose features. So that's what I set out to do, and that's where the internal networks come into play.…
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Server & Website Updates

I just finished migrating sequentialread.com to an ODROID HC1, plus tons of updates to my infrastructure & apps!…
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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!

See the next post in this series: Greenhouse development update 1 When I started this blog in 2015, I was just playing around. I published a few small technical guides, cross-posted a couple articles…