Mind Drops

My wife has convinced me to purchase on a treadmill.

This is a brief brain dump, so I can recall it when needed.

I think everyone would agree that when it comes to the VPN configuration macOS builtin VPN client lacks any flexibility and its GUI exposes a fraction of supported features.

Recently, I started to get notifications from my Google Search Console that some pages have their content wider than screen and that impacts Mobile Usability.

Searching the web for an example of a fully responsive pagination widget I found that either people consider “responsive” to be something else or that it is a non-trivial problem to solve.

Table of Contents Setting up GitHub Pages Setting up the private, code repository Configuring the GitHub Action for publishing In this post I am going to document the steps I took to implement a fully automated deployment of my blog using GitHub Actions a…

I am not a front-end developer, not a UI designer, nor a UX guru, but I am an engineer, so when I face a puzzle worth solving my brain switches on and I cannot let it go until I find a satisfactory solution to the puzzle.

I had my blog site for more than a decade now, but until now I was not putting any effort or thoughts into maintaining my audience or promoting the site.

Recently, I wrote about the dynamic resolution of upstream servers in nginx which was achieved by quite an intrusive patch to the core nginx module.

UPDATE: This approach was superseded by the proxying through systemd-socket-proxyd approach.

A while ago in the Transparent SSH host-jumping (Advanced) post I described a technique on how one could jump quite effortlessly through a chain of intermediate hosts.

I was involved in the creation of the sshephalopod project, which was an attempt to build an enterprise level authentication framework for SSH authentication using the SSH CA feature.

I heard a lot about Raspberry Pi boards but until now I had no need nor time to work with one.

I strive for simplicity since I am a strong believer that achieving a goal with the most simplest solution looks elegant, proves that you have deep knowledge on the subject, and overall is beautiful by itself.

In this brief article I am going to describe how I resolved a nagging issue I had with setting up access to hosts which are not directly reachable, but where you need to forward your connection through an intermediate host.

Table of Contents History People are saying “sudo” is good.

In my previous blog entry I described some basic functionality of SSH in terms of port-forwarding.

I think all of you are using SSH in your daily routines.

VMware VMs from a Linux-based PC.