Deep Tech
Deep tech articles from my own servers and code: Linux, cybersecurity, privacy, networking, automation scripts, Rust and Kodachi OS. The newest come first; the business side is in the business blog.
Getting Your Mass Marketing Email to the Inbox: Effective Email Techniques
How I moved my mass marketing email from a home-made VB mailer to list software and SMTP services, plus list cleaning, archiving and 2024 sender rules.
iOS Tips: Keyboard Shortcuts on iPhone & iPad
How to set up text replacement keyboard shortcuts on iPhone and iPad, plus practical iOS tips with the settings paths updated for current iOS.
Automate backups from Linux servers to Amazon cloud
My Linux server backup script: tar each host and MySQL, encrypt with 7-Zip AES-256 and GnuPG, upload to Amazon S3 with s3cmd, plus what to change today.
Beyond vBulletin Functionality
A 2014 record of the PHP tweaks and custom scripts I used to extend a vBulletin 4 forum, kept for reference; the forum has since moved to WoltLab.
Setting up a VNC repeater on Linux
Run your own UltraVNC repeater on a Debian server so viewer and server connect through NAT and firewalls without a third party, with 2026 security notes.
Validating a proxy via PHP
Check whether a proxy works with a short PHP and cURL script: pass the IP and port, see the exit IP and speed, with a safe version for PHP 7 and PHP 8.