Install OpenCV on macOS with Homebrew
I've been working with camera videos using OpenCV recently. On Linux, installing OpenCV can be quite cumbersome because it needs to be manually compiled. However, Homebrew makes everything easy on ...
Visualize web log with GoAccess
GoAccess is an open-source web log analyzer and interactive viewer that runs in a terminal or through your browser. It provides fast and valuable HTTP statistics for system administrators that requ...
Use Navidrome to build a personal music streaming service
Navidrome is an open source Music Server compatible with Subsonic/Airsonic. This article introduces how to deploy Navidrome on a server.
Build a mail server with docker-mailserver
docker-mailserver is a production-ready fullstack but simple mail server that runs inside a container. Building a mail server is quite complicated, and for a beginner, it may be unclear how to star...
Enable TLS communication between frps and frpc
In this article I introduced how to use frp to establish an SSH connection to a local server. In fact, services running on a local server also can be exposed to the internet via frp's TCP forwardin...
Use aria2+AriaNg as download service
Aria2 is a lightweight and powerful download utility. However, since aria2 is operated using command, it is slightly difficult for the normal user. Therefore, typically I use AriaNg as the web fron...
Pylr - A simple audio/video plugin for Typecho
As Typecho does not support audio and video, playing them on Typecho pages requires a plugin. However, most plugins obtain audio resources from playlists on Netease Cloud or QQ Music, which means t...
Issue a wildcard cert using acme.sh
In a previous article I introduced how to issue an SSL cert for a single subdomain using acme. If there are several services running on a server (e.g., cloud storage, blog, chatroom), and each serv...
Enable swap partition on Linux
If a server has RAM less than 1 GB or uses resource heavy services, it would be a good idea to enable swap space as the RAM may be exhausted here. This article records how I enable Swap on Linux.
Implement intranet penetration using frp
frp is a fast reverse proxy to expose a local server behind a network address translation (NAT) or firewall to the internet. This article introduces how to use frp to establish a SSH connection wit...