Journal of Timothy Kenno Handojo

Tuning My Blog

Resizing Images to Save Space

As the collection of my content grows, so would my need for data storage and network. Although hundreds of megabytes might not be that big, it can be cumbersome to transfer over the network. I would also like to keep things scalable.

I noticed that most of the space...

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Running Alpine on USB Armory (Part 1)

Following this article I wrote a while back, I decided to do something similar on a USB Armory that I've had for quite some time but couldn't really find a use of.

It comes with a vanila Debian installation (except for the kernel). I decided to try and have it running Apline Linux, since it's...

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Dynamic Grub Menu Entry

I needed a way for testing buildroot kernel. For this, I'd put my build on a flashdrive.

I started by preparing a flashdrive (I happen to have a spare 2 GB one) with a new MBR partition table and an ext2 filesystem. Then I installed grub on it.

# mkfs -t ext2 /dev/sdb1
# mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt/sys...

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Setting Up Mailbox for Contact Page

After moving this blog on VPS, I realized my contact page isn't working anymore. It used to be that I'd receive an email everytime someone submit. Then I realized that no mailing has been setup on this server.

It used to be that my shared hosting provides SMTP server, complete with cpanel to confi...

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Migrating to a VPS Server

To spice things up a bit, I've decided to move from shared hosting into a VPS. I managed to find a cheap VPS service and paid for half a year. The OS is Debian 12, of course.

Before I began, I installed all the necessary packages with

apt install certbot nginx-light php-fpm python3-certbot-ngi...

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