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Mini-tutorial: IPv6 with DHCPv6 on Asahi Net & OpenWRT

Mini-tutorial: IPv6 with DHCPv6 on Asahi Net & OpenWRT

The chance that this article will come in handy to anyone else than future me is minuscule, so I’ll mostly keep it brief, mostly as a note for when I need to do this setup again in the future. After seeing the glowing reviews for the GL.iNet Flint

Making my dumb A/C smart with Elixir and Nerves

Making my dumb A/C smart with Elixir and Nerves

As the scorching Japanese summer creeps ever closer with each passing day, I kept thinking about my yesteryear idea of remotely controlling my bedroom A/C over the Internet. With a simple click of a button ten minutes before bedtime, I could kick-start the A/C unit, ensuring my bedroom

Gallery: building my own home server

Gallery: building my own home server

Let’s pretend I didn’t forget to write anything for the past two years, nor finish my article on shell setup, and let me show you my latest addition to my home IT collection instead. I have published some articles about how this website, as well as my personal

Terraform Recipes: CloudFront TLS certificates

Terraform Recipes: CloudFront TLS certificates

At the end of the previous article, I briefly hinted at various intricacies of provisioning a TLS certificate for your CloudFront distribution. Let’s briefly have a look at what you can expect and how to deal with it!

Terraform Recipes: CloudFront distribution from an S3 bucket

Terraform Recipes: CloudFront distribution from an S3 bucket

In this new short series of articles, I want to share Terraform recipes to common tasks. These will be highly opinionated (as everything on this site is), but I believe that these are fairly close to the ideal approach.

Getting started with server monitoring and alerting

Getting started with server monitoring and alerting

This short article loosely follows my previous adventures in self-hosting services such as mail server, file server and document server; this time, I’ll show you how I handled server monitoring and alerting so that no matter what happens to the server, I can be quickly alerted.

Taking self-hosting to a whole new level

Taking self-hosting to a whole new level

In my previous article, I briefly described how I modernized the way this website is hosted, and how I better utilized the VPS it’s running on. Since then, I tweaked a few things and added one really big feature. Let me show you around a bit, I think you’ll like it.

Bringing this website to 2019 with Dokku, GitHub Actions, Terraform Cloud, and Mailcow

Bringing this website to 2019 with Dokku, GitHub Actions, Terraform Cloud, and Mailcow

For over a year, this website operated in a fairly simple way: a lonely Digital Ocean’s Droplet was running a MySQL database and a Ghost CMS instance behind a Nginx webserver. Over the past few weeks, I decided to pimp the server up just a little bit.

How to clock out of work with style

How to clock out of work with style

If there’s one defining characteristic of mine, it would be a horrible case of forgetfulness. It manifests in many different ways: sometimes I forgot to clock out of work, sometimes I forget to text my wife I’m coming home. Let’s kill two birds with one… massive stone today.

How to master a multi-stage continuous delivery of Vapor apps to a Kubernetes cluster

How to master a multi-stage continuous delivery of Vapor apps to a Kubernetes cluster

Wow, that title sure is a mouthful. I think is certainly breaks some sort of weird record for this site!

How to hot reload a Vapor project

How to hot reload a Vapor project

One question that gets frequently asked in Vapor’s Slack channel is whether is it possible to not have to recompile the entire project upon the slightest change in the source code. Until recently, I would have told you that this is just the reality of compiled languages, but today I have a solution.

How to de-Googlify your life

How to de-Googlify your life

Google, back in the day, used to be one of those companies that were loved by everyone and could essentially do no wrong. Due to Google’s actions in the past few years, it feels like that illusion is slowly disappearing and the true nature of the company starts showing – and it's not a nice look.

How to get a free SSL certificate for your GitHub Pages site

How to get a free SSL certificate for your GitHub Pages site

In the first article on this site, I described a way to host your site or blog on GitHub Pages while having it accessible via your own domain. I left the article with one thing left unsolved: the site was not accessible via HTTPS, and something like that would not fly in current year.

How to host your site for free using GitHub Pages

How to host your site for free using GitHub Pages

And not just host, but also set your site up to work on a custom domain and automate deployment using Travis CI. Automatic spell and grammar check included!