It’s taken a long time for the 21st Century to arrive in Bridgend. You might think that since I work as a web developer and maintain a homelab and a gaming channel on YouTube as a hobby that I’d have a fast Internet connection. That couldn’t be further from the truth.
Websites are being forced to gate content behind age verification to pander to the “won’t somebody think of the children” lobby.
The legislation makes no distinction between social media giants like Facebook and Instagram and small not-for-profit sites. If a bad actor in your tiny hobby site uses it to direct message porn to a minor, you could face a fine of £18 million for something you could not predict or prevent.
That’s an inside joke, my parentage isn’t seriously in question.
I’ve had a really productive day working on the typography for a client’s site, and along the way I found myself giving the much-overlooked <kbd> element a bit of a spruce-up.
Just a quick note about a Raspberry Pi Zero that has become unresponsive over SSH.
I’ve been on a bit of a quest recently to retrobodge smart home functionality into a 1930s house. This is the story of how I tried, failed and unexpectedly succeeded in building a custom presence detection sensor for Home Assistant.
It all started a couple of years ago. I was recycling an old laptop – and I mean recycling, it was too old to be remotely useful even with a lightweight Linux distro. I always hate the process of generating e-waste, so I pondered what I could possibly do with it. Then I thought about my mum. She’s never really taken to smartphones, and I’d seen her sit down and boot up her desktop PC just to check the weather forecast.
In Part 1 of this guide we went over the basic installation process for your first Linux home server. In Part 2 we covered a brief introduction to the Linux terminal and some useful commands for navigating around. Here in Part 3 we’re going to focus on setting up containerised services using Docker and Portainer.
In Part 1 of this guide we went over the basic installation process for your first Linux home server. Welcome to Part 2, where we’ll be covering how to connect to your new server, some filesystem basics and how to navigate around the terminal.
Inspired by a conversation on Mastodon, I thought it might be fun to try to write up the process of turning a spare PC into your own home server, assuming absolutely zero prior knowledge of administering Linux servers. Part 1 will cover installing the OS, Part 2 will cover basic terminal familiarity and Part 3 will cover installing and configuring your services. I’ll be glossing over a lot of things that are outside the scope of the tutorial, but I’ll mention them in passing in case the reader wants to dive down whichever rabbit hole they represent.