Self-Hosting

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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…
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Capsul Rollin' Onwards with a Web Application

This is a cross-post with the cyberia computer club blog. Next post in this series: Capsul - Rumors of my Demise have been Greatly Exaggerated What is Capsul? Some friends from cyberia.club started…
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Register a Namecoin .bit Domain easily, using Electrum-NMC

Namecoin is an old crypto-currency, one of the original forks of Bitcoin. It still exists today and has good security, primarily because it can be merge-mined with Bitcoin. This means that Namecoin…
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picopublish

For those times when you want to easily host a file on the Internet but you also want control over its Content-Type header. picopublish…
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Password Manager 1.1.0

https://pwm.sequentialread.com/ A simple, fault-tolerant, and easy-to-audit password manager. https://git.sequentialread.com/forest/sequentialread-password-manager Mobile Device Support Better beh…
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ServiceWorker + WebRTC... The p2p web solution I have been looking for!?

In my previous post Pragmatic Path Towards Non-technical Users Owning Their Own Data I talked about how hard it is to host web applications on your own hardware, at home, or on a mobile device such as…
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Wrote a Libre Password Manager this weekend

I've always been a paranoid person around computers, and I've wanted to start using a password manager for a while, but the only cloud-based one which seemed trustworthy (1Password) costs money and is…
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Docker on ODROID XU4: Installation and Creating a Base Image

EDIT March 2021: Now that I've updated my website stack (using an ODROID HC1, same board as XU4, but with built-in SATA). I have GoatCounter set up for web analytics, and I can see I'm still getting…
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Pragmatic Path Towards Non-technical Users Owning Their Own Data

I don't have a statistic, but I assume that the vast majority of the applications and content that the average user interacts with these days goes through a web browser at some point. If your app doe…
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How to use free LetsEncrypt SSL certificates with Docker and jwilder/nginx-proxy

In my last post, I talked a little bit about the magical ease-of-use that comes from Jason Wilder's nginx-proxy Docker container, which I use to route subdomains on sequentialread.com. Well, today I…
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Now with comments, more playing with Docker

I didn't want to launch the blog without comments, but I did it anyway, because I'd started working on a DIY self-hosted solution and didn't want to use disqus or any of the other paid / ad-driven / d…
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The "recycle" Computer ♻️

You would be surprised what people will throw away. I think if you want to self-host something, an old box that someone wants to get rid of is probably your best option. Why? While old machines may b…