Ashik's notes

Ashik's notes

Setting up matrix chat server with a bridge for WhatsApp

Setting up matrix chat server with a bridge for WhatsApp

matrix is a federated instant-messaging protocol with at least one fully functional open source implementation for the server at the time of writing this (synapse) and clients on various platforms (element being the most prominent). One of the interesting features of matrix is bridges. Bridges on matrix can be set

smartsh - use OpenAI to get help with command line

smartsh - use OpenAI to get help with command line

Ever Googled for the right shell command to recursively search and replace a string in every text file in a directory? Or gone through the headache of reading through the man page of any utility to figure out the right arguments to pass? I think the title of this note

A static site generator for Ghost written in C++

A static site generator for Ghost written in C++

Ghost has gained huge popularity in recent years as a blogging platform and a modern alternative to WordPress. Ghost is completely open-source and can be self-hosted. This website is built on a self hosted Ghost instance running on a docker container on a cloud VPS. ghost-size0-static is a simple static

Using Tailscale to limit access to websites hosted on a cloud VPS

Using Tailscale to limit access to websites hosted on a cloud VPS

Tailscale has become one of the most beloved tools in my network administration arsenal recently. A Tailscale exit node is a host on the Tailscale network (tailnet) that can route all Internet traffic of other nodes in the tailnet through it. There are multiple situations where this can be super

Configure fail2ban for a Gitea docker container

Configure fail2ban for a Gitea docker container

Gitea is a self-hosted open-source git management platform. I have found it to be much snappier than Gitlab. The memory footprint of a Gitea docker instance was also found to be significantly lower than that of a Gitlab instance in my short experimentation with both. The instructions to configure fail2ban

Switching the OS on a PXE booted Raspberry Pi 4B

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Switching the OS on a PXE booted Raspberry Pi 4B

I have a Raspberry Pi 4B that I boot from the network (PXE boot). It is connected to my 3-D printer and used to run OctoPi but I recently switched it to MainsailOS and then moved back to OctoPi. The interesting thing is that I did not have to flash

Using self-signed SSL certificates [For a Home NAS]

Using self-signed SSL certificates [For a Home NAS]

So you set up a home NAS with a bunch of services? Congrats! In my case, I run a few services like portainer, nginx proxy manager, pihole and openmediavault. The Nginx proxy manager (NPM) does a good job at routing the services to the right ports depending upon the url

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