The most considerable expense in many people’s life is a mortgage. With rising housing costs, paying off a mortgage is difficult for many people. This post will explore some ideas on shaving off thousands of dollars of interest from a typical mortgage.
There are many options to host a personal or small business website today and it typically costs $5 and upwards per month. This is the best option in most cases, especially if the $5 includes security patches, regular upgrades, and so on. However, if you rent a Virtual Machine (VM) on the cloud (think DigitalOcean […]
A back of the napkin calculator to check for car affordability in BC. If you are buying a car and want to calculate any of the following before or during your purchase, this tool might be of help to you.
NextDNS is piHole on the cloud and claims to protect networks and devices from security threats, malware, and adverts. I have been using their DNS servers on our home network for a while now, and although that provides basic functionality, their NextDNS CLI provides more advanced features that I was missing out on. Unfortunately, there’s […]
Ever heard of happy numbers? They are these amazing numbers which cycle down to 1 when their digits are squared and added. For instance, $ 23=2^2 + 3^2=13 $ $ 13=1^2 + 3^2=10 $ $ 10=1^2 + 0^2=1 $ On the other hand, an un-happy number would cycle down to itself instead of 1. In […]
TLDR; If you are looking to consume the DuckDuckGo tracker radar domains into your piHole from an online source, I have a hosted list right here. The list has a fingerprinting threshold of 2 (fingerprinting score 2 or above) and is updated daily. If you are looking to tweak the script and run it locally, […]
The site has been a never ending experiment on running a public personal website for me. A decade ago, I remember starting with blogspot, moving to MovableType, WordPress, TextPattern, Drupal and others. Playing with these Content Management Systems helped me gain valuable lessons on how CMS’s are built and what corners to look out for. […]