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How Geology Shaped Ancient Near Eastern Civilization

When looking at ancient cities from the Near East, sometimes it's a bit overwhelming and hard to visu Tectonic PlatesBefore I dive into the geography, I think it's really interesting to take a brief look at the underlying structure. The Near East lies on

Web Audio Modules

Cover photo by Grant Hussey @gthussey_art The other night I started exploring the idea of getting DAWs and plugins to run in the browser with WASM and it was

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Traefik + Wireguard for private VPN access to specific services

Cover photo by Grant Hussey @gthussey_art I have a VPS where I host both public facing services (like this blog) and private services like node analytics, dashboards and other

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Using Ansible to manage a server with automatic backups and restores using Airflow, Restic and Docker

Cover photo by Grant Hussey @gthussey_art I recently moved my personal server over to a VPS and decided to automate and refine the process with Ansible. The end experience

Shutting down Doveloop

Another project sent to the back burner. Another project that took months of work is now dead. To reflect a bit, Doveloop was a cool project and was really fun to work on, but I don’t think I’m ready to spend my

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Doveloop: keep in touch with friends without social media

I recently graduated college and was forced to say goodbye to a lot of my close friends because I had gotten a job in another state. I moved away and started working full time and also randomly decided I wanted to stop using social

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My process and toolset for (free) market research/validation

It’s hard to tell whether an idea is truly valuable or if you’ve just stumbled upon another “sitcom idea.” Most of the time we begin this process by asking the opinion of people around us, but that can often produce biased and

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A complete guide to setting up a Plex home media server with automated requests/downloads

A few months ago my dad gave me a spare computer and after a bit of research I set out on creating a home media server. A couple of weeks later I realized this wasn't just a project, it was a full-blown hobby. After

bevy

A better system for automatically grabbing torrent releases

Recently I've been working on Bevy, a self hosted alternative to Popcorn Time that doubles as an alternative to Sonarr/Radarr (torrent grabbing). I recently added a new system for searching for and grabbing releases which I thought was a huge improvement over existing

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How to setup a VPN with Wireguard that only routes traffic from a specific docker container (or specific ip)

This post is going to be short and to the point, but first here’s some background. I have a home server where I host a lot of services that I like to access externally, and where I also do some activity I’d

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Why did Doveloop fail?

After some analysis, here are a few main reasons why this project failed to pick up steam I was only convinced it was a good product because I made it.While it is pretty useful I don't see myself using it once a week