Security Why isn't catch-all a good idea and what can you do about it? I often encounter the opinion that if a mail service does not allow you to set up catch-all email, people consider it a disadvantage of that service. But it's not so much a disadvantage as a security feature. What catch-all mean? First of all, what the catch-all actually is: it
Thoughts Let's talk about AI Hey, guys! Let’s talk about AI. I don’t know about you, but I have the same feeling about this whole thing as I had with the NFTs. Don’t get me wrong, I like AI, I use it myself because I think it can make information retrieval much
How To Using reCAPTCHA with PHP and Javascript I had to update the page of one of my clients to use some verification before guests can submit the form because they receive many unwanted messages from there. One of the ways is using reCAPTCHA and making guests solve puzzles before they can submit the form. Prepare To implement
How To Manage multiple git accounts Hi! Do you have multiple git accounts or you just using one? I have multiple and everytime I reinstall my system I trying to find how I configured it before... (i finally wrote this together here). Im using multiple git config file rather than multiple host names (i don't like
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Newsletter May's Newsletter issue #2 Hi there friends! Last few days was really hectic for me, and I didn't make myself to write something meaningfully on my blog. I want to talk (now) with you about something we (I & and probably you) using everyday to communicate with our colleagues, friends, family... If you guess emails,
PHP Sending Message to Mattermost With PHP and GitHub Actions Today I show you how you can send notifications to Mattermost with PHP and Github Actions. There are some implementations on Github Marketplace but nothing was made with PHP, there was Javascript, Go, or Python. But PHP can be used to create command-line utilities and it's very easy. Don't trust
PHP Featured Introduction to PHP Enums PHP 8.1 finally brings enums which can be know from other programming languages like C#. It is in my opinion one of best things which came with new php version. Enums Prior enums you maybe used static classes like me or you have installed enum composer package. Enums can
Thoughts What Is My Best Operating System? Hi!. Im Sure you meet with this question on internet. People trying to find best operating system for programing, video making etc. I tell you secret There is nothing like best operating system each has some pros and cons which you can google if you want. There is many reviews
Security You Need To Use 2FA Everywhere Yes! Use 2 factor authentication (2FA) everywhere and everytime it is possible. Novadays it is pretty common and almost all servicess to allow you to use some kind of 2FA. What is 2FA? 2FA gives you to your service identification (e.g. emal/username & password) another layer to verify your
Snippets Rebinding IP address on WAN port with Mikrotik If you want to restart your router in case connectivity issues you don't have to with Mikrotik. You can simple as for new IP address on your WAN pot with this simple script.
How To Uploading Files With Cake Php and Fileupload Plugin I just release new version of my FileUpload plugin for CakePHP. It will make uploading and downloading files really easi. Want to see? Continue reading. Prerequisites If you have existing application you can skip right to Create fileupload app. * CakePHP 4 * Https server * PHP 7.x or 8 * php extensions
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Self-Hosting My Selfhosting Workflow Hi there! I have here another update on selfhosting. I hosting all services with docker and using docker-compose.yml file to deploy services. I wrote about it more in Notes on Selfhosted Services [https://www.maymeow.me/en/posts/2021/09/notes-on-selfhosted-services/]. Ok, now i have one repository for configuration
Self-Hosting Notes on Selfhosted Services I started selfhosing with one service (Gitlab) 5 years ago, but now i have more services on totally 1 dedicated server and few VPSs in cloud. Server configuration storage First i had each service per git repository but was hard to manage if you have each service in different folder
How To Installing Cloud Hosted Router on Cloud I have part of my self-hosted services on cloud and part at my home, ia have solved connection between them with OpenVPN sever installed on cloud machine and Raspbery Pi 2 as my client. If you are familiar with MikroTik, you can instal Cloud hosted router on your provider. Installation
How To How to Install VirtualBox on Elementary OS Odin Is here is the guide. FIrst of all go to Virtualbox [https://virtualbox.org] site. Click downloads and download .deb. (as you know Elementary OS is ubuntu based system). Next step is open terminal and install virtual box as follows cd Downloads sudo apt install ./virtualbox-6.1_6.1.26-145957\
How To Sending Exit Code Over Curl Hi everyone! I created few scripts to backum my server's data to my S3 storage and wanted to be notified when backup fails. Until now I used Zabbix with zabix-sender but I found maybe better server monitoring for me: Netdata [https://www.netdata.cloud/]. So when I dont use zabbix
How To Docker Development Environment With Windows Pt 1 Hello there. Who follows me on mastodon and who read my blog may know I returned to windows from Linux. Until now I had both OS, windows on my desktop and Linux on my notebook. I like Linux if you want you can have it looks the same as macOS
How To Docker Volumes on NFS No Problem. Did you know you can have your volumes on nfs server? Yes i know you can mount NFS folder on server and then on point docker volume to this folder, but i will show you how to mount volume right with docker. Btw you can read more about
How To How to Host Static Websites With Amazon S3 and Cloudflare Hi! I moved my website to s3 + cloudflare for SSL certificate. Do you want to know how? I will show you: First you will need to create new storage so Login to your AWS console as admin. Create Bucket Click on services and then select S3 from storage section. On
How To 🐋 How to Run Wordpress in Docker I'm not a very big fan of WordPress. IMO main problem (and benefit?) is that WordPress has many plugins. So you can find plugins for almost everything. But here are plugins in different quality and sometimes just one plugin on your page blocking you from upgrade to a new version
How To How to Install and Configure Samba H1, let's see what you need to do when you want share files between windows and linux. There are mroe ways how you can do it, and one is to install and configure samba service on your server. After successfull installink you can conect trough file explorer to \\server-ip\path\