News Switching to Ghost from Wordpress I've switched from Wordpress to Ghost. I'm porting over most of my previous posts and updating them with the date in which they were originally posted. Once this is completed I'll look into adding new content.
Linux How To Share TP-Link AX50 USB To Both Windows And Linux I recently changed from Cable internet to Fiber internet so I got a new router and the chose TP-Link AX50. It has USB sharing built into the firmware and I had a spare external hard drive available. Once connected and enabled through the router configuration my Windows machines easily connected
Docker How To Backup A Postgres Database From Docker In a prior post I detailed how to backup a SQL database from a MariaDB Docker container. Since I also have a few Docker containers which use Postgres I needed a solution on how to create a backup in case a restore is needed. Luckily I was able to reuse
Docker Keep Docker Containers Up To Date With Watchtower What is Watchtower? The purpose of Watchtower is to keep all or select Docker containers up to date at all times without requiring user intervention. Watchtower will also perform cleanup of the images which are replaced so that they will not take up unnecessary space. When an updated container image
Docker Use Authelia To Protect Public Applications Authelia is an open-source authentication application which can be used for single sign-on and 2FA (two-factor authentication) for applications through a login portal. Main Features of Authelia * Several kinds of second factor authentication: * Security Key (U2F) with Yubikey. * Time-based One-Time password with Google Authenticator. * Mobile Push Notifications with Duo. * Password
Docker Setup NGINX With Let’s Encrypt SSL Using Docker And Cloudflare Setting up NGINX with a free Let’s Encrypt SSL certificate is a breeze using Docker and the container maintained by Linuxserver.io. The default setup will have a few different DNS options available. If using Cloudflare make sure under the dns-conf folder there is a cloudflare.ini file. If
Docker How To Backup A SQL Database From Docker Backups are important in case of a computer crash or an accident where data gets lost. Some Docker containers have a dependency on storing data in a database like WordPress or Bookstack. An easy way to make sure a backup is made is to create a Powershell script and set
Docker Manage Docker Using Portainer In my previous Docker posts I detailed what Docker is and how to setup docker containers through Docker Compose. Portainer can be used to help view logs and interact with Docker containers through a web application. Portainer allows for container management through UI which means the user does not need
Docker How To Run Docker Applications There are multiple ways to run Docker applications and the two that I use are “docker create” and “docker compose up”. Both have their pros and cons which I will explain in this post. What is Docker Create? Docker create command can be used to quickly fire up a Docker
Docker Introduction To Docker What is Docker? Docker is a tool that is used to create, deploy, and run applications by using containers. Containers have all the required dependencies to run an application so that the application will have all of the files required for it to run properly in an isolated environment. For
Windows How To Add An Application To The Windows Startup Folder There are many reasons why an application should be started when Windows boots. Since some applications don’t offer this option it needs to be manually configured. An easy way to do this is to copy the start menu shortcut or application shortcut into the Startup folder. The easiest way
Android Send Files From Android To PC Using Solid Explorer In a previous post I used ES File Explorer to move files off of my Android tablet to my Windows PC. Since then ES File Explorer has been bought by another company and has started adding ads, memory management and other deceptive or unnecessary items to the app making it
Windows Change Default Library Location In Windows Windows has default libraries for Pictures, Music, Downloads, etc. If you don’t want to keep the images in the default location chosen by Windows then you can easily change that location by a few easy steps. The image above contains the possible locations that can be changed. In my
