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Google Data Center Workshop

Oh boy, this is a fun one… Roughly three weeks ago, my friend texted me out of the blue, showing me an email he received from Google regarding a data center workshop event! I hurriedly indicated my interest in the event and waited patiently for a confirmation of my spot… …which never did arrive until […]

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That Time My Raspberry Pi Died

My Raspberry Pi is at the heart of all my homelab shenanigans, from nginx serving as reverse proxy for some of my services hosted on my other servers, to updating my domains, cloudflared tunnel, VPN, and a boatload of other crap… long story short, it play an extremely crucial role in my setup. I’m not […]

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(WIP)Talkyard on ARM!

So, my friend wanted to host a forum for some group/club project that they were working on. Long story short, my friend decided to use this project: https://www.talkyard.io as his forum platform of choice. Now, he hosted the project on AWS initially, as the project was x86 only. However, this proved to be somewhat of […]

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Self-Hosted Live Streaming

Throughout the pandemic, I’ve been mostly stuck at home—for at least a good six months—without being able to hang out with my friends. As such, we would spend a lot of time talking on discords, watching movies, playing games like Minecraft, basically doing all our activities online. And one of the activities that we enjoyed […]

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