Author: sts
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Is Self-hosting safe?
How can I securely and safely run a self-hosted website from my home office you may ask? In a word, curiosity. The Pi serving this page has no original data, only copies. So there isn’t a concern with data loss. The first line of defense is a strong password, done. Second is a strong firewall…
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Planit Pro for photo planning
Ever since I discovered Planit for Photographers I’ve been hooked, it’s way better than sliced bread. Rises and sets of the sun and moon, providing time and azimuth from any point on the planet. Tides for shorelines, also anywhere. How about a planet, star, constellation, asteroids, comets, all covered in Planit Pro for a 1-time…
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DIY
I grew up working with tools, fixing, maintaining & modifying things. This was mostly out of necessity, there was barely money to buy parts, certainly not to pay someone for markup & repair. If it didn’t take an expensive tool or special knowledge, and sometime even then, we would do it ourselves or make the…
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Dashboards
What is the dash in dashboard? As a verb it means to travel in a great hurry. When a horse dashes off (noun), there is often debris flung behind. The debris from the horse’s dashing is also called dash. In carts and wagons boards were placed behind the horse to protect riders from getting a…
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Painting Shrooms
Light painted mushrooms are fun and easy to make, both when capturing the photons & processing the pixels. It is a great way to learn Photoshop or any layered image editor, how to master the use of layers and masks. To take the picture you just need a way to support the camera at mushroom…
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Top Level Domains
TLDs are no longer limited to .com, .net or .org. The .sky is not the .limit. TLDs now go from A to Z with hundreds of stops along the way and more added all the time. To get an idea of some TLDs and who controls them this wikipedia page lists several hundred. Most professions…
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Acorn to Oak
Practice makes perfect You can teach an old dog new tricks, but the dog has to want to learn, and it’s still harder to do. One way to help is practice, practice, practice. That was all the justification needed to add a 2nd Pi to my Pi shop. With two Pis I had to start…
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Docker – Step 2
All aboard Raspberry Pis run a Linux Operating System, probably the most used OS in the world, and it’s open source, meaning (in general) anyone can use it, modify it and redistribute it, all for free. So far the software for my Pi shop has been completely free, there are opportunities to pay to support…
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First Steps
Don’t reinvent the wheel.It’s probably been done before.Check YouTube. I wanted a way to show & share images across my local network without having to start my main PC. I started with 1 Raspberry Pi 5 (some assembly required); the free Raspberry PI Imager (OS); and some websites & YouTube channels for guidance. Little did…
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