Simple Google Photos Grid Test
This is just a test to see if the Simple Google Photos Grid plugin still works! If it works, you should see a grid of photos above. It's only fair to share…FacebookTwitterEmail
Project JoRViP: Josheli Running Video Producer
I produce videos for the Josheli Running YouTube channel. Producing videos is tedious and time-consuming. It’d be great if I could automate, as much as possible, the production of those videos. This project, the Josheli Running Video Producer, will be an attempt to do just that. The idea is that I’ll build something in fits […]
Single Sign-on in Caddy Server Using only the Caddyfile and Basic Authentication
As mentioned, I’ve started self-hosting a lot of services, and in front of them all I have a reverse proxy using the Caddy Server. As always, with all web services, authentication is one of the bigger pain points. Typically, every service implements their own authentication mechanism, which becomes tiresome when you have to log in […]
Stupidly Simple, Static, Startpage for Self-hosted Services
I mentioned the other day that I’ve been self-hosting some software services on a server in my basement. Well, I build a stupidly simple, static startpage for those services. There are a lot of existing start pages or apps for start pages, like Homer or Heimdall. But they seem like overkill, with databases and build […]
A New, Old Hobby: Self-hosted Services
I’ve recently returned to a hobby of mine … self-hosting various software services and web applications on a server I maintain. I’ve hosted my own websites (and the websites of friends and family) for almost two decades, but that’s always been done using a server in the cloud, through a company that maintains the actual […]
Migrating a Laravel application to Symfony
When I started at the day job about 6.5 years ago, I inherited a jumble of custom PHP/MySql web applications. One of my first goals, after migrating a Drupal 6 site to Drupal 7 (ugh!), was migrating the custom PHP applications to a coherent and supported framework. I evaluated a few smaller frameworks (Slim, F3), […]
No Instagram: “follow” Instagram users without having your own account
I got rid of my Instagram account (and Facebook account) some time ago, but I’d still like to see photos from my wife and our dog, without being tracked or gamified into addiction. To do that, I was just visiting the Instagram website for each public user I wanted to view, but that was way […]
Loading Files to a Docker Container on Startup
I recently had the problem where I needed to load files into a Docker container, but only once, and only at the startup of that container. Specifically, these were signing certificates stored in an S3 bucket. Obviously (I hope), we don’t want to bake sensitive certificates and keys into a Docker image, so we need […]