Jae’s NewsI recently got a job opportunity where I had to maintain a PrestaShop website & additional modules, how bad could it be? Well, even worse than you may think.
At first, PrestaShop seemed like an okay CMS, not good, not bad, just meh. The pages were loading in a reasonable time for a PHP application this big and there were no major issues.
And then a week passed. I immediately noticed the "Modules and Services" tab took at least a minute to load in the first place, more than ten in the (...)
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Prestashop: the good, the bad and the ugly
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Installing your own Gemini pod
22 February, by JaeGemini is a lightweight protocol made to be private and to be light. Today, I’ll teach you how to deploy your own server, named "pod" so you can brag about it online.
Prerequisites A brain Some time (20 minutes maximum) A server (dedicated, VPS, magical potato) A domain pointed to that server Basics in Docker Something that tastes good to drink as a reward after
Starting up For simplicity reasons, we will use docker-compose. As for the server image, we will use adrianhesketh/gemini. (...) -
NextDNS, a good companion for everyday internet usage
18 February, by JaeI have been using NextDNS for well over a week now and here is what I have to say about it.
First, what is NextDNS? Well, it is a DNS firewall that can be used to block tracking and annoying domains. It is especially useful for mobile devices, on which ad-blockers such as uBlock Origin aren’t available. As a bonus, NextDNS can also be configured to block telemetry from the major OSes such as Microsoft Windows, Apple macOS or Google’s Android.
The service itself is free to use up to 300k (...) -
The answer to life, death and everything else
17 February, by JaeIsn’t that weird that everything ends up dying? Why couldn’t be immortal? What if we could just live indefinitely, forever...
Well, this article will not give you this answer but rather tell you how to install Spip on a server with Docker. In this small tutorial, I’m assuming you are using Debian Buster as your server OS.
First step: install Docker Installing Docker is pretty straightforward, and all the instructions are available on the official Docker website. This can be summed up as (to (...) -
Hello world!
9 February, by JaeHi everyone!
This is an announcement to say that I’m moving the blog part of my website here, on this very website as I am now too lazy to maintain GoHugo.
The CMS used here is Spip which is really stable compared to others.
The new RSS feed is located at https://news.jae.moe/spip.php?page=backend
I’ll see you guys around for the next post!
