Dendory Network - Blog

My thoughts on what the future holds for systems administration.

With a majority of online content being produced by AI, where does that leave digital preservation?

How I built a status screen using a Raspberry Pi and custom Python code.

How I use AI to speed up my daily morning briefing.

How a growing population is returning to smaller online communities.

Report: There are increased security risks when using US-developed apps and services for global entities.

How our digital world is becoming worse, and what I'm doing about it.

How your success comes from equal part luck, a good social environment, and hard work.

How to locally host your own Docker images and Python modules.

Are system administrators becoming mere users of technology?

Implementing volume shadow copy functionality on the Linux desktop.

A look at our polarized society, from politics to online privacy and AI.

Proper threat modeling is crucial to having a realistic IT infrastructure.

How could Canada realistically create a sovereign cloud?

Some thoughts about the current state of things and what led me to create DataHoarding.org

Will AI models sacrifice people for the greater good?

Designing, maintaining and scaling up a Proxmox cluster

A Canadian Perspective on Decoupling from U.S.

Using Cloudflare CDN, Azure DevOps and Static Web Site for free

Keeping track of your systems using a service called smtp2go

How building systems keeps me from being bored for over 10 years.

A free way to build a self-hosted music collection using a Flask app, shortcuts and yt-dlp

A look at one of Montreal's most iconic neighborhoods: Griffintown

Get rid of those self-signed certificates by creating your own chain of trust

Deploying a proxy to convert HTTP to HTTPS connections on a range of ports

Configuring, running and managing Docker containers using Portainer on Debian

Tutorial on building a web app to show some data using the Pandas library

Why I still use an RSS feed reader despite the many attempts to kill the protocol.

Safely storing secrets for Ansible, shell scripts and more

Monitoring multiple Linux hosts using a centralized Syslog server

Study sheets for Japanese language learners

How to hide the 'Server' header on Apache HTTP 2.4 server

A simple guide for accessing SQLite databases in PowerShell

A useful set of guidelines that all system administrators should keep in mind

How to make a .NET Windows app without using Visual Studio

A look at how a modern web site is constructed

How to take care of a database as an IT professional

Some notes on how to create documents using the LaTeX language

A look at code abstraction in a typical Perl framework

An RFC describing an URI scheme for ODBC connections

A strategy for creating global identifiers in code

A common sense guide to surviving in any emergency situation

The story of building an art web site to 70,000 page views per month

A visual timeline of the history of the Star Wars universe

A tutorial of how to combine Poser 7 and Vue 6 to create a 3D render

How to achieve realistic lighting in Vue 6