Programming
Coding with ChatGPT : A Retrospective
"Curious how ChatGPT handles real-world coding? Discover my journey building a Python web service—from AI boosts to debugging detours—and see if AI is the coding partner you need.
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Flipper Zero : Tool or Menace?
The Flipper Zero may look like a toy, but it's a powerful hacking multi-tool, equipped with RFID, NFC, and Sub-GHz capabilities. Despite concerns about misuse, it's a favorite for security enthusiasts and pentesters.
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S3 : Cloud Storage Revolution
Explore the fundamentals of Amazon S3, its uses, and alternatives. Learn how cloud storage supports businesses and developers, with tips for hosting and insights on integration.
Crypto
The Helium LoRoWan Network : Success or Failure?
The Helium Network is a decentralized wireless system for low-bandwidth IoT devices, offering a cheaper alternative to cellular networks. It has received wide-spread adoption, but is it economically viable?
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AWS GameDay : eSport for System Administrators
AWS Game Day is a competition that allows participants to test their AWS skills in a risk-free environment, possibly discovering new services. Could this be the new eSport for System Administrators?
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Why do you need a HomeLab?
A HomeLab provides a proper learning environment for computer infrastructure and software and infrastructure. With over half a million members on the r/HomeLab reddit channel, it is impossible to deny the popularity of the hobby.
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Is Your Server Online?
A hard lesson for any sysadmin to learn is to have an outage without even knowing it. The following describes how Technodabbler converted a simple #cron #monitoring into a light-weight monitoring solution.
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Racking a Rosewill 4u Server
Server hardware is typically mounted and operated in specially designed rack. Such hardware is designed from the start to be placed in these racks. However, when building a machine from scratch, finding a good rack mountable computer case can be a challenge. A couple of good options come surprisingly from
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The Silent Server Cabinet Project
When building a homelab, noise is a common concern. Enterprise-level servers were never designed to be quiet. For those resourceful enough, you can build a sound proof cabinet. Here is how Technodabbler did it.
Programming
Web Application using GitHub Actions and Kubernetes on Digital Ocean
The way we develop and deploy Web Applications has changed a lot in the last 10 years. Typically, such a project would require skills in three fields : * Knowledge of a programming language to build a web applications. * Knowledge of system administration, as to manage the platform that will host the
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From Analog to Digital : Phones in the Home
Cover Photo by Pawel Czerwinski on Unsplash In a growing world of digital media, the home phone remains one of the most analogue device in our life. It's powered by POTS, also known as Plain Old Telephone System. The more modern alternative, VoIP or Voice over IP, offers telephony service
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The Search for a Good FXO : the Yeastar Neogate TA810
About two years ago, I started a journey to convert the analog phone system found in my home to a sleek, modern VoIP system. There was one important requirement : the system should work with the existing phone line. That was a perfectly reasonable requirement, many providers already had that phone
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What do you need to build a disk shelf?
In a Homelab, disk shelves are a simple solution to add storage to an existing server. Just add an SAS adapter for some extra external SAS ports and you are ready. On the r/Homelab sub-reddit, older disk shelves, such as the NetApp DS4243 or the Dell MD1200 are popular,
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Ubiquiti Switch : Residential Overkill
It's not secret that I am a big fan of Ubiquiti hardware. I've already written about their hardware [https://www.technodabbler.com/edge-router-x/] twice [https://www.technodabbler.com/unify-ac-an-elegant-wifi-solution/] in the past. But this latest upgrade to my home network is elegant superfluousness : the Ubiquiti US-8-150W 8 port POE switch.
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Unify AC - An Elegant Wifi Solution
Wifi is difficult to deploy properly and even more difficult to debug. When living in a small apartment, the solution is pretty simple : place a simple wifi router roughly in the middle of the appartement. However, in a large multi-floor house, getting a strong wifi signal in every room can
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Edge Router X
Solutions to share the Internet on a network have tremendiously evolved in the last twenty years. My first experience was using Wingate [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WinGate], a software proxy that could act as an Internet gateway. Along with the introduction of Internet broadband came the consumer gateways, such