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Month: August 2025

Self Hosting – Blog, Now *WITH* SSL

So, I’ve been running my blog through one of my server and, I was having trouble to get SSL enabled through nginx proxy manager. For some reason, it was just not letting the data through when I was activating it. I figured out what was the problem. When I setup my router in opnSense, I […]

Ellie
Last modified on August 20, 2025

The self hosting adventure

Since I’ve been a much shorter human, I’ve always admired computer servers and enterprise level computing. I sworn to myself I’d get a server rack at some point in my life to host my own stuff. The dream we very much an active one as in the past, I’ve managed to collect a shell of […]

Ellie
Published on August 15, 2025

DIY Pinecil v2 power cable

I swear, this is by far the BEST bench upgrade I ever did. In the past, I’ve been using USB-C to power my soldering iron and my best power brick was able to output 9v at best (keep in mind, I didn’t had the best power brick). Heating up solder on ground planes was a […]

Ellie
Published on August 14, 2025

Attempt to repair a cracked PCB

With a title like that, you can figure out that it didn’t went extremely well. 🙁 Nonetheless, let’s start from the start shall we? I was presented with a wireless charger circuit that had a crack in the PCB near the USB-C connector. Normally these kind of gizmos are so cheap, they’re just going to […]

Ellie
Published on August 13, 2025

Blog issues

Now resolved! So, in the past months, some of you may have noticed that this website was famously no longer reachable, or was stumbling on some weird landing page with nowhere to go. I will admit, the downtime was never meant to be that long. 🙁 What happened behind the scene is that I decided […]

Ellie
Last modified on August 11, 2025