As I was saying about Plex, and it would apply to any other self-hosted streaming, my goal — and most people’s, no doubt — is to fill in the gaps between what mainstream streaming services offer and the contents that fell through licensing since we signed up for it. It’s pointless to argue that the…
One of the platforms I didn’t anticipate I needed, but ultimately found myself pondering over were images DB. If it were personal or interpersonal photos, there are free and paid viewers, libraries, and management softwares available. If it were creating and catering new images, those exist for the professional illustrators. But neither particularly helps when…
After starting few containers on Docker, the one problem nobody mentions, and quite frankly, none of the installation guides talk about, is the web UI management. Not a management UI of a single project, but managing the UIs, the plural. More and more user friendly open source projects are adopting web UI as baseline, yet,…
There are two parts advantage of moving to web-based apps and platforms from my experience: one, web-based development seems to be more active (completely anecdotal), and two, web-based means I can come up with an add-on rather easily. Komga is a comics and graphic novels DB manager — yet another Docker post I am still…
I don’t buy as much as I used to from Amazon, partly because the platform is now also plagued with generic items that are also available on Chinese platforms. Why pay for pacific crossing twice, only to be charged double or more for the same product? But there are still products that can only be…
In my previous post, I’ve hinted there is something in the works for the mobile environment. I wasn’t sure how well it would work. For some contexts, YouTube has a mobile webpage, not a responsive UI like you see on The Mad Tea Party. You can easily catch that by the subdomain, m.youtube., when it…
I have made several Python password generators. One consistent goal of my generators is its password usability; memorized or not, a user should be able to type it without the worry of user errors. The key here is “type”, because, I’ve learnt the hard way that some password policies out in the wild are purely…
There are few options I always find odd that it’s tucked away in Accessibility on iOS. This is one of those odd occasions. On current version of iOS, if the device was playing media, it displays media control on the lock screen. Even better with the AOD, as the control is always visible. If the…
I am leaving this post as a future reference. Though I’ve tested it myself, since I am in the process of retiring Pi docker machines, I won’t be updating it in the near future. One of the user-friendly touch added to Raspberry Pi OS from Debian is its sudo privilege — it doesn’t ask for…
One thing I’ve learned the hard way while I was tinkering with VPN long ago — don’t use bonjour or .local addresses over VPN. Most of the times .local addresses do not resolve over VPN, and trying to make it happen is often not worth the effort. In my case, with some Pis and NAS,…
It’s funny how I discover the settings I would have wanted to change before I run a massive migration script. This is a story of tmux, yet again. tmux is definitely a better tool to have when the work is done remotely over Terminal. The only downside of it all, aside from being old-fashioned CLI,…
While tmux is a wonderful tool on its own, for mere mortals like myself, I jump back and forth between GUI and CLI. At least, that’s the impression I am getting from tmux why I am not getting 100% out of it. The shortcuts, quite frankly, are not intuitive for modern GUI users mind. As…
If you are running home server using Docker containers, you would often see PUID (UID) or PGID (GID). The only problem is, as far as I could tell, Synology DSM does not offer GUI way to get these numbers. In fairness, in Docker territory, you are above the pay grade of consumer NAS products. For…
While I was working with Raspberry Pi projects, one notable trend which became prevalent was the web UI open source dockers started offering. With the proper DB, the indexing could not be faster than my handy work from 2000s. What that also meant was I ended up with a list of URLs I would want…
Since I am still in the process of moving projects over from Pi, one of the big issues at hand is keeping tabs on the scripts I wrote. As much as I’d like to believe all my databases live on SSD, they don’t. HDDs are frustratingly slow, and the modern databases are designed around it.…