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How to serve a website from behind a NAT with a VPS
A common way to run a website behind a NAT as you might find it at home is to configure the router to forward port 80 to your machine. This is not always doable, as you might not have access to the router. If you have access to an external server(for example a cheap VPS), you can route traffic through that by connecting to it via SSH from the local...
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Introducing Kudos
Kudos is a way to acknowledge something somewhat similar to a “like”. Each of my blog posts now has a kudos button at the bottom. I liked the simplicity of it. I use a nice libary from KudosPlease which looks quite slick. Unfortunately the API provided by them had multi-second load time. Now I run my own fast compatible API at https://kudos.niels-ole.com/ . You can find the backend source on...
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Hosting side-projects with Docker
In this article I will write about: Why I needed a new hosting setup for my projects Make a shallow dive into why I chose Docker Show great tools for easy deployments for HTTP(S) List services running with this now I regularly do side-projects which mostly consist of some API or website of some sorts. After developing it locally I have to deploy it to a server to make it...
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Creating timelapses of planet earth
I was very inspired by Glittering Blue which shows images of a Japanese weather satellite. After becoming interested in timelapse videos I began collecting images from the public servers of said weather satellite to compile a nice video out of it. This is the result: Some time after Glittering Blue was released someone took the time to put together a npm module. Using this I collected images for about two...
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Building my standing desk
I naturally spend a lot of the time of the day in fornt of the ocmputer and therefore in front of a desk. Since it is very unhelathy to always sit the entire day I first started using a gym ball. This was a great improvement for my health feeling. But the ball was eventually ripped to pieces by my cats. What I wanted was a standing desk. The problem...
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Things to know about the world
Sometimes I have a feeling that a lot of people do not know basic things about the world. To improve this I want to collect a summary of statistics that are really helpful for getting a better understanding of the world. All of the statistics will be aggregated from some place so do not expect anything new if you are already well informed. I want to start at very basic...
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Hello World!
So I am starting my first personal blog where I’ll write about things that appear to be interesting. If you have any suggestions, feel free to contact me. As of now I am not sure, what this blog will eventually be about or how frequently I will actually publish.
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