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A while back I built tech-playground.com, which I describe like this: A playground that runs your config on real servers for you, a bit like CodePen for server tech. At the time of writing this includes nginx, HAProxy, Jinja, Django Template Engine and Go Template. Having released the project to the public back in June of 2023, through my social media channels and some private groups, it got moderate usage - about 2-3 requests per day that were not me using it in my daily work. [Read More]

Copy & paste from untrusted sources on the internet into the terminal is a really bad idea! Early in my career I did it too and still often see others doing it.

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I write an extensive personal knowledge base using markdown, code-server and a variety of other tools. Originally, in 2021, I wanted to have something like Obsidian Publish but self-hosted, so I created it.

Over time my knowledge base evolved more into a second brain, tracking not only my technical notes and journal, but also things like recipes and hikes. With this my publishing pipeline, and the script at it’s core, extended in a multitude of ways.

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The idea at the start was simple. Do something like Obsidian Publish , so read frontmatter and if it contains published: True put it up on a website to view. Info I have since rewritten and updated this tool: New version The Basics I started with taking a look at different static site generators but after a bit of testing I ended up back at Hugo, which I already use for ps1. [Read More]