Pejibaye Blog

About a year ago, I decided to move all my personal notes from DokuWiki to Obsidian. DokuWiki is great software and has served me well, but I never utilized it to its full capacity. It’s biggest strength is that it’s a… wiki, and I was the sole user. It made little sense for me to keep a service running when I could just have some Markdown files locally. And Obsidian provides a really nice UI on top of those Markdown files.

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Keycloak provides user federation, strong authentication, user management, fine-grained authorization, and more. Here is a guide to enable HTTPS access to your Keycloak server using a free Let’s Encrypt SSL certificate. The beauty of Let’s Encrypt is its ease of use and the fact that it’s free! This guide assumes you have already installed Keycloak at /opt/keycloak/ using the official guide for bare metal installs, and now you want to enable HTTPS access.

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Nowadays it’s very easy to publish on the web for free. There are countless blogging platforms and website creators. But these platforms usually end up controlling your content. Sometimes you cannot even export your own data! The other extreme is to set up your own server by yourself. Buy a VPS (virtual private server) or a shared hosting somewhere, install a web server, and upload your files. This is a lot of work already!

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I made some small apps for Android and I wanted to distribute them. I also care a lot about software freedom, so F-Droid is the best place for me to publish my apps. Disclaimer! You are not able to sell your app on F-Droid. If you want to make money with it, you would need to allow users to pay through another method. Please see this StackExchange question if you’re interested in monetization.

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Last year, I was tasked with mentoring an intern. It wasn’t my first time mentoring, but it was my first time being fully in charge of a new employee. In the end, the intern was hired as a full-time employee, and I thought it would be helpful to compile all the advice I’ve been giving them, for future reference. The following tips come from my experience and my way of working, as well as my own personal opinions.

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