This section contains articles of various topics and concepts the author is interested in.
This article shall go through installation procedure of wireguard-tools for debian-based and arch-based distro, key generation, and configuration. Then an example case is presented to elucidate how to configure one in a production environment. For simplicity reasons, this article shall also assumes the use of UFW for its firewall, and systemd for its init system. ...
As a part of our company workflow, we requires a tmux setup that would automatically open specific file locations with a certain layout when vscode terminal is open. Let’s implement them. ...
In the previous blogs, we have described the basics of our ssh tunneling infrastructure. The system now serves as our gateway to access devices from work, for example, and also provide a convenient web proxy as a replacement of our VPN. In the following sections, we recapped through some of our use cases: ...
We have certain resources accessible only from home LAN, and we want to connect to them from anywhere. Given that we have a high availability cloud server, we can use it as a reverse proxy to access specific services we wanted to access. A custom configuration is required, and will be outlined in the article below. ...
Describes how to connect to a machine under NAT with SSH Tunnels initiated by systemd unit files. ...
A walkthrough to use SSH Socks as an adequate replacement of a VPN service. ...
This article will describe how to set up and utilize SSH tunnels. ...
It is possible to turn soft subtitles into hard subtitles by using libass, and I have tried it, it simply works. However it means we will have to reencode the video, which can be quite time consuming for large videos without optimization. In this article, I do not aim to be comprehensive, we will simply go through the gist of how I did it. ...
~/.* managed with xadf This article demonstrates my dotfiles managed with bare git and alias method, implemented as a custom controller script (xadf) that also functions as a standalone installation script to replicate my dotfiles configuration to any unix home directory with bash. Also features a number of custom bash functions (the $xadfmods) either for my use or just for fun. ...
BIP85 opens up the possibility of backing up only one seed, and use it to derive any future seeds. The operation is also just a one-way operation, any derived seeds cannot be used to find out its parent seed. Therefore, it simplifies backup processes a lot. ...