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Ultra Cheap Pacific Surfliner to San Diego October 16, 2023 Transportation 4 min ride 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 Los Angeles… Read the post

2023

  1. Cloudflare Zero Trust Gateway as an adblocker Jul 29 Tech & Servers 5 min ride 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 needed it to work on my…

2022

  1. Offline-first PWA with Svelte & Vite May 25 Tech & Servers 3 min ride 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 toolsets…

2021

  1. Replacing AD with Authentik LDAP outpost in Jira Dec 19 Tech & Servers 4 min ride 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 LDAP…
  2. Install Proxmox Backup Server on a lowend server Feb 15 Tech & Servers 3 min ride This is a tutorial to easily install Proxmox Backup Server on a server that does not meet Proxmox's system requirements.

2020

  1. Run a fast and cheap Minecraft server on Amazon EC2 May 30 Tech & Servers 5 min ride For a while, I have been exploring affordable, yet high-performance for hosting game servers. AWS’s new Graviton2 instances provide the perfect solution for this.
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