Firefox Send on Shared Hosting
To setup Firefox Send on shared hosting you will need a Shared hosting that supports NodeJS. SSH support is very much recommended but not necessary for non-production service. Following the… Read more »
Author Archives: Beining
macOS: Convert multi page PDF to multiple images by command
TLDR Preview.app shall ONLY WORK with ONE PAGE. Most commands on Stackoverflow shall ask you to use imagemagick : however recommended commands are for Linux which works different from macOS… Read more »
Note: Ensure that dead process can be respawn ASAP without systemd
for i in {1..10}; do flock -nx ~/tmp/ws.lock -c "/home/binary" || true ; sleep 5; done
Use DirectAdmin/cPanel to run ANY WEB APPLICATION in ANY LANGUAGE!
Why? Echoing my comments in https://lowendtalk.com/discussion/177687/nodejs-hosting-using-directadmin – Since Apache can be used as reverse proxy why should we be limited by environment provided by the host? How? Apache ProxyPass (nope)… Read more »
Use Mailgun/SendGrid for free inbound SPAM filtering
Why? Although not problematic for most commercial Email providers(GMail, Outlook, etc.), self-hosted Email are prone to inbound SPAM. A couple solutions exist: the most common one is to use local… Read more »
Nextcloud + Collabora CODE+ Docker Compose + Nginx
Why? Google Docs is great – but is behind GFW. Better have something we can control. Options? Nextcloud has native support of Collabora Office. ONLYOFFICE also supports Nextcloud. Difference? Collabora… Read more »
Redis Object Cache on Shared Hosting (DirectAdmin, cPanel, Plesk, etc.) without native support
What Cache? There are may layers of cache one can run on WordPress – ranking from farthest to closest: Browser: setup long expiry time to cache as much data as… Read more »
Replacement for free G Suite without losing GMail with Gmail, SMTP and forwarder
What happened? Sadly Google is shutting down the free version of G Suite for good. What now? There are some not-so-good alternatives: Self hosting: Mailcow is extremely memory hungry and… Read more »
Hacking Outline Wiki: Making Slack login works with other methods, like OIDC
There’s a problem that Slack login is required for Slack integration, but sometimes we want to use OIDC for login: this will make the application vomit. Steps to fix it:… Read more »
Free personal wiki with Outline on Heroku with personal domain via Cloudflare
Outline what? Outline is a nice personal wiki tool that Supports Markdown natively Self hosting option Fast Nice searching function Not overly complicated Supports live collaboration making it great for… Read more »