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What is IPFS and why we need IPFS IPFS stands for InterPlanetary File System which is a peer-to-peer distributed file system that stores…

Hi Is there any way to use swarm key to make the network private but still be able to use public nodes to find each node in the private network? If not, what are considerations in not having this functionality? Why not enable nodes to find each other using any node but only transmit data between those with the same swarm key? My problem that I want to address is, I have several nodes behind NAT each in different locations and with dynamic ips. nodes also can be added. I want to make the proce...

Spin up three droplets over at Digital Ocean, one in London and one in San Francisco and one in Singapore. And then install, make keys…

Using IPFS Kubo through the command-line allows you to do everything that IPFS Desktop can do, but at a more granular level, since you can specify which commands to run. Learn how to install it here.

Discover how to install an IPFS node on your Synology NAS and create your personal decentralized storage node.

Solution to the below problem: Use $ddns-confgen or $tsig-keygen, the former provides you with the syntax to paste into your named.conf file Problem: I am trying to configure a BIND9 (ver9.161-Ubun...

DuckDB is an in-process SQL OLAP database management system. Simple, feature-rich, fast & open source.

UniGetUI: A better UI for your package managers. Install, update remove and manage any software you want to with UniGetUI

Fred and George, Turtles in love There are hundreds of cool command line tools that have been made over the years built on the unix philosophy. Plain text is powerful, ubiquitous, and human-centric. It was also the only option for computing for quite a while. It’s no surprise that some of the most sophisticated tools are focused on it. One such package is GNU Recutils, a set of tools and libraries to access human-editable, plain text databases called recfiles.

In the olden days of the WWW you could just put a robots.txt file in the root of your website and crawling bots from search engines and kin would (generally) respect the rules in it. These days, ho…

You’ve probably noticed that everywhere you go — the doctor’s office, hotels, or retail shops, there are tiny PCs everywhere. These small PCs often show up on the surplus market f…

After switching from Firefox to LibreWolf, I became interested in the idea of self-hosting my own Firefox Sync server. Although I had seen this was possible before, I had never really looked into it—until now. I embarked on a journey to set this up, and while it wasn’t completely smooth sailing, I eventually got it working. Here’s how it went. Finding the Right Sync Server Initial Search: Mozilla’s Sync Server Repo I started by searching for “firefox sync server github” and quickly found Mozilla’s syncserver repo.

So you need to resize an image? Maybe you need a smaller version to upload to your website. Or a bigger one for a presentation. Perhaps you just want to experiment with different sizes and formats. Whatever the reason, resizing images is a crucial skill for any aspiring graphic designer, photographer, or casual image editor. […]

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My writings about Ghostty, the terminal emulator I work on.

I want to post more to the blog, and I want to share it out a bit more. There's an indeiweb concept called POSSE, which means Publish on your Own Site, Syndicate Elsewhere. So lets write a script that pulls down my feed, looks as what I've posted so far on Mastodon, and prompts me to share something. Setup Lets start our publish.rb script with some boilerplate fun, including some inline gems so we don't need to cart a Gemfile around all the time.

Today we’re thrilled to announce the winners of our fifth annual Gems of the Year awards! After our panel narrowed down the selection and the community voted on...

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Learn ways to convert PDF files to the ePub format in Linux.

You can use Caddy as an automated certificate manager to keep certificates renewed without having to run an HTTPS server [1]. This way, the certificates can be used by other programs that need them. Caddy’s tls app can be configured without the need for an HTTP server. It can keep certificates renewed. Without additional configuration, assets (certificates, keys, and metadata) are stored in a data directory on the local file system at a location dependent upon your OS. The simplest form is to ...

Neo4j is a high-performance graph database management system for graph storage, data science, ML, analytics, and visualization. In this tutorial, wel...

LocalSend is a free, open-source, cross-platform file sharing tool that allows you to share files to nearby devices.

pgDog - PostgreSQL query router, pooler, load balancer, and proxy.