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Making It Two Locations: A Routed WireGuard Tunnel Between My Labs
1+ hour, 22+ min ago (926+ words) This 3 part series documents that rebuild: Part 1 - Got Lazy With My Home Network'So I Rebuilt It Properly Part 2 - Turning One LAN Into Five Networks: VLANs + Wi'Fi Segmentation at Home Part 3 (this post) - Making It Two Locations: A Routed WireGuard Tunnel…...
Provide Private Storage for Internal Company Documents
4+ hour, 11+ min ago (225+ words) The company needs storage for its offices and departments. This content is private to the company and shouldn't be shared without consent. This storage requires high availability in the event of a regional outage. The company wants to use this…...
Hosting a Dockerized Node.js App on Oracle Cloud Free Tier
3+ day, 8+ hour ago (398+ words) I recently decided to host one of my Dockerized Node.js apps on a VPS using Oracle Cloud Free Tier - not just to deploy it, but to understand what's actually happening under the hood. I wanted to learn: Here's exactly…...
Building Privacy-First SaaS Tools in a Spam-Heavy Internet
4+ day, 2+ hour ago (308+ words) Hey Dev community " I'm Syed " a builder focused on creating practical, privacy-focused web tools and scalable SaaS platforms. Over the past few years, I've become increasingly interested in one core question: How do we build tools that are simple, reliable,…...
AltSchool Of Engineering Tinyuka’24 Month 12 Week 4
4+ day, 2+ hour ago (616+ words) If you missed our previous session, you can always catch up here. This week, we went hands on again. This time more intermediate level with Highly Available Web Application on AWS. Let's get to it, shall we? In this project,…...
I Stopped Reading Newsletters. Here's What I Use Instead.
4+ day, 4+ hour ago (1082+ words) My morning used to start with four apps. RSS reader. Email. Slack. Twitter. Then I'd open a few tabs for sites that didn't have feeds. Somewhere around the 200th email and the third Slack channel, I'd realize I'd already spent an…...
I Stopped Just Reading About VPNs… and Built One Instead
4+ day, 6+ hour ago (226+ words) For a long time, I studied VPNs the way most students do " through textbooks, diagrams, and theory. I knew what an encrypted tunnel was. I understood TLS conceptually. I could explain how VPNs protect users on public WiFi. But there…...
Caddy + Cloudflare DNS: Wildcard SSL Without the Pain
4+ day, 7+ hour ago (336+ words) This guide walks through the full setup: custom build, secure token storage, and a working Caddyfile. Caddy's DNS provider support ships as external modules that get compiled in at build time. The official xcaddy tool exists exactly for this. It's…...
Your Bookmarks Are Trapped — Here's How to Free Them
4+ day, 9+ hour ago (351+ words) If you use more than one browser, you already know the pain: bookmarks don't follow you. Chrome syncs to Google. Safari syncs to iCloud. Firefox syncs to Mozilla. Brave, Vivaldi, Arc " they all have their own sync systems (or none…...
Create and configure virtual networks
4+ day, 9+ hour ago (167+ words) This exercise walks you through building a simple hub'and'spoke network architecture in Azure. You'll create two virtual networks, configure subnets, and establish secure VNet peering between them. Scenario Your organization is migrating a web-based application to Azure. To prepare the…...