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David Hsieh

I'm a freelance software developer in Guatemala. I'm passionate about technology, startups, gadgets and creating stuff. I made this blog to share anything I'm currently working on or learned about.

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Welcome to Jekyll!

You’ll find this post in your _posts directory. Go ahead and edit it and re-build the site to see your changes. You can rebuild the site in many different ways, but the most common way is to run jekyll serve, which launches a web server and auto-regenerates your site when a file is updated.

A Look Back at 2014

Inspired by Fogus’ post, I decided to make my own list of some of the things I discovered or accomplished in 2014, in no particular order

Ship it! Things I learned in the process of shipping my app

Most of us have probably come up with a cool idea for an app at one time or another: the app that no one else seems to have come up with, or just an app that we believe that everyone needs. Some of us just let the idea pass, while others, inspired by that idea, proceed to brainstorm, plan and start building that app.

DigitalOcean Droplets Manager for OSX

A couple days ago, browsing the web, I came across this DigitalOcean Indicator made by Andrewsomething. Which manages DigitalOcean droplets easily from right Ubuntu’s panel.

Dagr: A Time of the Day Based LED Lighting System

Because I tend to be more focused and productive at late night, I usually stay up late working on some stuff that needs to be done.

MKV SRT Extractor for Samsung Plex users

After I finally built the Gunpla I got a couple years ago (Which I’ll write about later on). I felt more interested about the series, Gundam 00.

Why using Google DNS wasn’t a great idea

During the last couple of week of last month, I noticed delays while browsing the web, especially Reddit, up to the point that started to bug me. Was it because of the recent change made by my ISP ? Or because I changed my Tomato router to manage my DSL connection? The first thing I did was a speed test , but everything seemed to be normal, so it wasn’t a speed issue. So the DNS server became my…

Finally, no more double NAT from my ISP

A few years ago, after struggling with BitTorrent clients and online game servers closed port warning and error messages, I’ve been learning about DSL routing and computer networks. That’s when I realised that I would never be able to have an open port or a public IP address to my home network, because my network was behind an ATM Bridge.

Bypassing a NAT/Firewall by reverse SSH Tunneling

Not until last week, my ISP finally decided to change my home’s internet connection from IPoATM to PPPoE, and giving me a more direct access to the internet, thus using my router’s NAT configuration.

Hello Octopress!

Hello Octopress!