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Alpine Linux as a Server

Daniel’s documentation for using Alpine Linux for local servers on x86-64 and Raspberry Pi family. These documents use only the ‘main’ repository, except in one or more optional HowTo guides.

By Daniel F. Dickinson on April 29, 2022

I Have Been Up to Tech

If you’ve been wondering why I haven’t posted in a long time: “I have been up to tech!”

I have quite a few projects on the go. Besides the theme for this site, I have forked and updated a Node.js project called perfectionist as perfectionist-dfd. I have also contributed to Hugo documentation and published some demo sites for Hugo modules I use with Dananke. I have also played a little with LEGO® Mindstorms® EV3 as part of a programme for the MPL MakerPlace.

By Daniel F. Dickinson on April 19, 2022

Real Life SystemD Timers

Most blog entries on SystemD timers give trivial samples. This article takes a different approach and provides the full details of two examples of using SystemD timers that are in active use on my systems.

By Daniel F. Dickinson on March 7, 2022

Docker Network: LAN to Container

Normally when using Docker one only wants specific unicast ports forwarded, so the standard Docker paradigm of using NAT to forward ports to the container works. However, when using Docker to containerize internal services like Samba (which needs a combination of unicast and broadcast UDP), LLMNR (Windows multicast address resolution), or mDNS a.k.a Bonjour (Apple multicast address resolution) one may find that the standard Docker model is insufficient.

By Daniel F. Dickinson on February 21, 2022

Fixed RSS Feeds

About a month ago I made a change to the website layouts that broke the RSS (news) feeds. This is now fixed.

By Daniel F. Dickinson on February 21, 2022