Hurricane Electric (HE) is an Internet backbone providing a number of services including colocation, IP transit (dedicated Internet access/paid peering) and layer 2 transport (private line). A company I work for has been using Hurricane Electric as one of our upstream Internet Service Providers for a number of years. This is a review of HE’s IP…
Create-react-app is a great tool for building React applications and websites. It’s super simple to use and creates a whole development environment without and build configuration. You do not need to struggle with setting up webpack and other tools just to work with react. It’s all there ready for you to use. Once installed you have…
Common domain name extensions such as .com, .net, .org can be bought for less than ten dollars. But there are other, less common domain name extensions that cost a fraction of this price. Some domain extensions can be bought for a dollar or less and some are even free. Free Domain Names Want a free domain…
DNS is like the yellow-pages of the Internet. It can be confusing at times, and there are some common DNS mistakes that many novice and even experienced DNS administrators make. Here are the top most common DNS mistakes and solutions for them. Do not let misconfigured DNS settings break your website. Using a CNAME for…
A checkbox is a standard User Interface element in the Apple world. As such, you would expect SwiftUI to have a Checkbox View element. But that is not the case. As of 2020, there is no some thing as a Checkbox View in SwiftUI. But SwiftUI does allow you to create standard iOS and macOS…
I have an old Raspberry Pi that I recently setup as a seedbox. The Raspberry Pi had a weird problem in that it would disconnect me from SSH seemingly at random. I would begin to run a command, watch the command progress and then get disconnected. It took me a couple hours of checking everything, but eventually…
Different browsers on different operating systems will have different sized scrollbars. This can mess up the design of a page. The default scrollbar width can range anywhere from 12px to 17px. Webkit browsers also have the ability for the user to configure scrollbar widths. Webkit browsers, such as Chrome can have custom scrollbars that can…
I have an account on a shared Linux server that allows me to SSH into the server. My account on the server does not have root or sudo privileges. The server also does not have Nodejs or NPM installed onto it, so doing any sort of web development work is difficult. Most modern front end…
Some of the things that I develop are done on a low end VPS. Today I was using metalsmith to create a simple blog/website on a low memory VPS. Metalsmith is a nodejs based static website builder. It’s an easy way to use javascript on the server to create static websites. When one is ready to deploy metalsmith,…
Revers DNS (rDNS) requires you to input the reverse ip6.arpa address of an IPv6 address. This can be difficult and time consuming to do by hand. This calculator will take an IPv6 address and output the reverse ip6.arpa format. Useful for PTR records. It can also take a valid arpa format IPv6 address and turn…