Category: Nerdism
I was curious if it was possible to run local scripts from simply clicking a button on a basic HTML page, as I can think of a few good scenarios for browser…
Read more about Running local scripts with HTML buttons →Made a couple of Google Apps Scripts yesterday/today. The first one counts how many unread emails in your Gmail Inbox from a domain or particular email address, and adds the number in…
Read more about Google Apps Scripts for filtering Gmail in Sheets →I’ve been building some website monitoring stuff lately using self-hosted software. Here’s one that uses n8n (like Zapier) to ingest email logs (sent from a WordPress site) from an IMAP folder, parses…
Read more about Email Parsing with N8N and Graylog →My webcam in the office is an old phone on an arm mount, running the Iriun Webcam app .…
Read more about Iriun Webcam Mobile App →I’ve been learning how to interact with APIs lately, and this app on MacOS (Auxl) has been fun to play with. You visually drag around Nodes on a canvas to build your…
Read more about Auxl →If you work in IT with multiple client networks to keep track of, or you just have a lot of personal internet-connected devices around the place, NetBox looks like an awesome tool…
Read more about Netbox →This is a Grafana dashboard running on one of the raspberry Pis in my home network. It’s visualising a data feed that’s being fetched from a couple of cloud servers using Prometheus…
Read more about Grafana →If you’re wanting to learn docker and what it’s all about, but you’re a visual learner (like me), there are a couple of great self-hosted GUI’s for managing containers. The one I’ve…
Read more about Portainer →My HomeLab currently consists of two Raspberry Pi 4’s The Pi in the black case is the 4GB RAM model, running my install of Home Assistant . The Pi in the official…
Read more about My Raspberry Pis →I’ve decided that this year I’m going to learn how to build WordPress plugins. Not necesarily to publish to the wp.org repo, but something that will make my life just a little…
Read more about The year of the plugin →The last component of Grunt I wanted to setup before I get stuck into my current WordPress project, is LiveReload. This does what it sounds like. When it detects any file changes…
Read more about Grunt LiveReload on WordPress →Today I decided to look into Docker & Grunt. Docker doesn’t really seem like the kind of thing that would benefit me much in my workflow for building SMB WordPress websites. Looks…
Read more about Docker & Grunt →Today I wanted to take my new knowledge of SSH a little further, so I created a Virtual Machine, installed Ubuntu and then installed Apache, PHP, and MySQL. I then installed WordPress…
Read more about Virtualbox & WP-CLI →So on NYE2015 I’m learning to SSH and Rsync to my server so I feel like more of a bad-ass web guy. Update: Oh, and I just setup a local install of…
Read more about SSH and Rsync, and Git →I wanted to play Unturned 3.0 with my brothers, but they were in another state. I attempted to host the server portion of the game on my spare laptop on the shelf.…
Read more about Hosted a Unturned 3.0 Game Server on Amazon EC2 →
