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Evin Revello

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Lean Domain Search Fix

Years ago I discovered Lean Domain Search (https://leandomainsearch.com/) on Hacker News and it changed how I searched for .com domains. After relying on it for finding bespoke domains for years, I was shocked when the Length feature was broken after Lean Domain Search got bought out and started heavily shilling for the .blog TLD. My [ ]

Laser Cutting in the Garage

Operational Instructions 1. Clear any debris from in and around the laser cutter 2. Turn on water pump 3. Ensure water is running into return 4. Turn on air pump 5. Ensure air pressure is blowing out of nozzle 6. Turn on exhaust 7. Ensure the exhaust is pulling negative pressure 8. Place the material [ ]

Server Debugging TL;DR

TL;DR because the post I wrote was over 10 pages with snippets and all the various issues tracked down over the last 6 months. This is the distilled approach to solving issues on the server level. Check the Relevant Logs MYSQL: /var/log/mysql/error.log PHP: /var/log/php8.0-fpm.log Nginx: /var/log/nginx/error.log and /var/log/nginx/access.log System: /var/log/syslog Make More Logs…

How to Login on the Frontend

Before I started my first serious frontend job, I reached out to a friend who was much more knowledgeable than me stating that I felt like such a phony due to the fact that I didn’t even understand how to make someone log in. He assured me that it would not be a problem, as [ ]

My Raspberry Pi Setup Guide

For the past few years I have found the versatility and robustness of Raspberry Pi’s to be a great experience to work with. Sure I could exude the low power and open source virtues, but in reality the Raspberry Pi is great for its simplicity; barebones linux hardware that has a serial out. Sure the [ ]

Automated NASA APOD Background

The NASA APOD (Astronomy Photo of the Day) is one of the most profound sources for images related to astronomy. The default screensaver that comes with Linux is limited in the sense that it only shows a set of predetermined images. To enhance my computing experience I decided to write a script that updates my [ ]

Non-passive Deployment Guide

For the past few years when working on projects that are self-hosted I have relied on an S3 bucket for QA and manually deploying to production through a series of commands. I am sick of looking up the options and vernacular so I figured I would just put it all here to make it easier [ ]

RapOwl.com Singing Helper

One of the (stupid) side projects I have wanted to work on was an easier way to find lyrics while freestyle singing. I had been hyping this project for a while to friends and coworkers. With all of us going our own ways at work, I felt compelled to get the MVP done before not [ ]

Free Hot Springs Map

freehotsprings.com This project was started due to the fact that I could not find a unified map showing all of the free (or near-free) hot springs throughout the United States. These are undeveloped and non-resort hot springs where each location has unique attributes that make them special. By putting all of these locations into one [ ]

How to Egress Data from a Network

TL;DR Corporate networks have various SAG’s (Secure Access Gateways) that filter traffic in a way that is constantly evolving to different threats. To bypass most of these a custom “protocol” must be adopted, but not be too extraordinary. Using an HTTP POST is the easiest method to consistently get data off of an enterprise network [ ]