Your own email: Great power comes with great responsibility
There are days that you do things out of the ordinary. That day, I opened my spam folder…exceptional behavior for all of us. This is not the end, I found a self-sent threatening email. That’s me, a proper villain :)
This amazing finding set off a thought process in my head.
How? How is it possible?
Let’s dig in and start a little investigation!
Cloudflare Tunnels: You don’t need Nginx proxy
Exposing containerized applications isn’t straightforward. I’ve got a dedicated server for Docker containers with a few different supporting components. I need to take care of routing, SSLs, web sockets, paths, and other bits of Nginx configuration.
Cloudflare states that this can be done easier and faster with:
no open ports,
no exposed public IP,
SSL certificate,
and completely free.
Let me check that…
InfluxDB: If you are lazy, you need to be smart
Like most programmers, I’m lazy in some aspects.
One of them is updating databases to the newest versions :)
My InfluxDB for PV Dashboard is still an older 1.7 version. Everything works great and there is no need to upgrade, but a few days ago I need to rebuild a few queries due to billing changes from my power company, Tauron.
