Hull Blogs

Miniflux is "an opinionated feed reader". I recently set it up, on a "folder" (read: path) under my main web address, and ran into a few struggles - so I am documenting it here. First, a few variables…

In March 2022, the mesa libraries reviewed the patent licensing issues around h264, h265, and vc1; and added a build-time flag to allow en/dis-abling these codecs. In response, various linux distribut…

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Hello all; it's been a while. My last blog post was August 2022. Let's get an update. Graduation. I graduated from the University of Hull on the 21st of July 2022. I attained a 2-1 in BSc Computer Sci…

tldr I quite like it. Some background information As mentioned in my about section, I've been daily driving Linux since August 2021 but have been using it as part of side projects for years before …

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Recently, I switched from Nginx Proxy Manager - the Docker container - to bare Nginx. Or more specifically the open source webserver and reverse proxy - there are many other products available. Ther…

tldr: password managers provided by large companies, while convenient and come with some very nice faeatures are very much vulnerable to having data breaches and can have security issues. You don't wa…

Hello again, it's been... *checks time and laughs nervously* almost 4 months since my last post. Almost as long as the gap between my PVE and first VPS post, so quite some time. When I first started t…

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Preface Back in July, I wrote a post detailing what I run on my VPS, some things have changed since then so I thought I'd come back with an update. If you haven't read the previous post I suggest you…

A few months ago, I started learning about containers using Docker. This has certainly been a fun experience overall (though sometimes frustrating 😛). One issue with this is rebuilding the container…