Tools

For many years, I used NGINX as a reverse proxy. It’s pretty bulletproof as long as you have your configuration set up properly from the get-go. There’s even a number of ways to automatially create new SSL certs for new containers but this mostly has to be done in a separate container itself. This makes the process of upgrading, testing, rolling back, patching and whatnot a bit of a mither. Enter Traefik. ...

Twitter? Garbage. Facebook? Garbage. Do you enjoy having your data harvested and sold? No? Good. Back in the day, there was this thing called Internet Relay Chat. What if I told you… It still exists! Internet socializing without all the Silicon Valley data theft! But due to how the ecosystem works, any time you’re not connected to the server, you don’t receive any messages. This means that you don’t get to see conversations that happen while you’re offline, even if somebody mentions you! ...