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I recently decided to upgrade my old Asus router to something more modern and fun. Since going the self-hosted and open-source path recently, the choice was easy. A small, dedicated hardware running OPNsense. One of the most important…

Previous versions of Ubuntu Server used a file under /etc/network to configure static IP addresses, but this has been changed in later versions of Ubuntu. When installing Ubuntu Server, a tool called NetPlan will probably configure your…

Naming stuff is difficult, especially in the digital world. It's one of the things that you want to get right the first time. So it is scalable and descriptive without having to redo it after a year when you buy a new NAS or move to another…

The Raspberry Pi is a great little computer you can use for many different things. Unless you need a lot of processing power it’s good enough to run as a small home server. I’ve decided to use mine for some network related stuff since the…

The operating system of a Synology NAS, DiskStation Manager , is a great web-based GUI making it easy for everyone to manage their NAS. However, sometimes it's preferable to access the NAS through SSH instead of the GUI. Logging in with…

When you are pushing commits to your repositories you are authenticating with either HTTPS or SSH. Telling GitHub that it is really you. That only ensures that it's the correct user doing the pushing. You could also add an extra level of…

When plugging in a new keyboard to the Mac you need to set what kind of layout it has if not detected automatically. The Keyboard Setup Assistant usually pops up the first time you plug the keyboard in and you can choose if it's ISO or…

Concatenating strings is a pretty straight forward task in JavaScript and with the introduction of template literals with string interpolation things got even simpler. Let's say that we want to concat a couple of inputs of a form that is…

Using submodules can be a simple solution to make some parts of a public repo private. For example I have separated the actual content of this blog to a private repo. Not because it's something secret (you are reading it now anyway) but it…

Updating dependencies in an npm project is pretty straight forward and easy to do with the command yarn upgrade . It updates all packages to their latest backwards-compatible version. Something that those coming from using npm update…

A while ago I wrote a post about always writing perfect commit messages by using commit linting tools and conventional templates. This makes the commit messages look great and formatted the same way regardless of who is committing but…

There are many useful plugins for vim and I've always used a plugin manager to handle them all. Recently I found out that vim has had support for package management out of the box a long time now. It was actually really simple to switch…

Hooks in Reacts are wonderful to work with and managing local state is one of the most common ones. For more complex states the useState() hook could be changed to a useReducer() instead. A problem we might encounter is that state isn't…

TypeScript is great for many reasons and when getting past the first few steps it really makes developing a joy. With that said there may come a time when objects keep growing in size and maybe not all properties will exist all the time…

When creating a new npm project, all those with a package.json in the root directory, we usually don't create everything from scratch but need some dependencies. There are different type of dependencies that can be somewhat difficult to…

Time for another build. For this one I wanted it quiet and small but still with nice, tactile switches. My current board had Zealios v2 67g but they were slightly too heavy and way too loud to be my daily driver. The tactility was great…

When writing CSS we sometimes want some more logic to our styling. For example a navigation with multiple elements in a horizontal layout probably needs some space between the elements. A padding-right could do it but we don't want…

Gatsby uses GraphQL under the hood for managing data and it does this really well. It usually doesn't take long before the queries grow big and some duplicated code will occur. This is where fragments come in handy. A way to break out…

Node Version Manager is great for managing and working with different node versions but can be a little tricky to update to a newer version the first times. Especially if you want to keep all the globally installed packages. It’s actually…

Drone is a great open source CI/CD running in a docker container that is both easy to use and install. Because it runs in a container and doesn’t require a lot of dependencies installed on your system it’s really easy to update to a new…

If only working on projects with one single git service you won’t have a problem with email addresses differ between accounts. All your commits will always use the same information. But say you are using one service for private projects…

We’ve all been there, looking at a function and don’t understand a thing of what it does. The next step is of course look at the commit message, the git blame. That will explain everything for us. Or will it? We open it up and we see this…

When building a front-end app today it is common to have the app hot reloading in the browser every time you make a change. This can also be done for your back-end app built with Node by using a package called Nodemon. This app watches all…

Drone CI is an open source continues integration and delivery platform built on container technlogoy. It is a lightweight and easy to use solution for testing and deploying your projects. Drone is distributed and run in a Docker container…

If you fork an existing git repository and add that fork to your own repositories it will not be in sync automatically with the original repo. That could of course be a good thing if you want to develop the project in your own direction…

If you have your git repositories spread across multiple git services, like GitHub for work and GitLab for personal, you can run into problems with your git credentials. Especially if you are using different email addresses, such as the…

I've always loved Varmilos keyboards and their amazing build quality. Unfortunately the firmware is often really bad and leave a lot to wish for, especially the lack of programmability. As with most mass produced keyboards the selection of…

HTTP/2 has only been out a for a few years but it is certainly time to activate it on your sites now. Compared to the old HTTP 1.1 there are many pros. Requests are downloaded parallel instead of in a queue, greatly improving speed and…

Browsing the web unencrypted with only HTTP is not recommended anymore and Google recently started to mark all sites without SSL as “not secure” in their browser Chrome. Adding a certificate to your site used to cost money and often meant a…

If you’ve been working with web servers for a while you’ve probably heard about Apache. It was pretty much the default solution when setting up a new site on a self hosted server a while back. The classic LAMP stack , an acronym for Linux…

If you've never heard about SSH keys and are still using passwords when logging in to your remote servers you're in for a treat. Or maybe you already know about SSH keys but aren't organizing them in a good way. Anyway this post will make…