Ultra Cheap Pacific Surfliner to San Diego
One of the busiest intercity rail services in the US is the Amtrak Pacific Surfliner. It runs between San Luis Obispo on the Central Coast and San Diego in California, with many trains short-turning at …
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Cloudflare Zero Trust Gateway as an adblocker
I was recently looking for a solution to handle ad blocking at the DNS level. I wanted to use the DNS level specifically (rather than an app or browser extension or something like that) because …
Offline-first PWA with Svelte & Vite
I’ve always been a big fan of Progressive Web Apps (PWAs). They offer app-like functionality without the development / labor overhead that comes with building a traditional app. Plus, I don’t need to learn new …
Replacing AD with Authentik LDAP outpost in Jira
For a long time, I’ve maintained an internal Microsoft Active Directory deployment with 2 domain controllers. However, now that I have some free time, I’ve decided to shut it down and replace it with Authentik‘s …
Install Proxmox Backup Server on a lowend server
I recently acquired a storage VPS with just 512MB RAM and a weak CPU scoring around 300 points on Geekbench5, but extremely cheap storage (to the tune of $15/year/TB). I wanted to install Proxmox Backup …
Run a fast and cheap Minecraft server on Amazon EC2
Introduction For a while now, I have been exploring affordable, yet high-performance and low-latency solutions for hosting game servers, specifically, Minecraft servers. (I understand that shared Minecraft servers can be even cheaper, starting at just …