We are excited to announce the addition of RSS feeds to our website! RSS feeds allow you to easily stay up-to-date on our latest news and blog posts directly in your favorite feed reader. Finding these feeds is simple – just look for the RSS feed buttons on our landing page. One button is located in the ‘Latest News’ section, and another is in the ‘Recent Blog Posts’ section. Subscribe to our RSS feeds today and ensure you never miss a thing!

P.S. We’re also planning a blog post that dives deeper into the implementation of RSS feeds on our site. Stay tuned to our blog for the update!

We have implemented Eloquent Relationships to our Post, User, and PostType models!

The detail of which will be described in this blog post. The change is done with minimal changes from the appearance. Therefore for casual viewers nothing much is changed.

However behind the scene it is being tidied out because we no longer have to manually join database tables. It also enables us to implement more advanced features, as accessing various relationships will be much easier for us to do.

We have updated our styling, primarily on our font selection and color. Here’s a brief summary of the change:

1. Fonts for headings will use Montserrat font, while body text will use open sans.
2. Fonts for codes will use Sometype Mono, size is adjusted.
3. Content box will now colored as #E5E5E5, or basically a light gray.
4. Text color will now be #000, to match the gray background.
5. Code blocks will use #D0CFDF as their background.

Montserrat and Sometype Mono are obtained from Google fonts.

Other styling elements will be updated later when I figure out how it should be accomplished.

Very recently we have finished a series on SSH Tunneling, Reverse Tunneling, and SSH Proxy configuration. You can read the full-length summary here, however in this news post, we will provide a brief summary.

In those blog posts, we have described the basics of our ssh tunneling infrastructure. The system now serves as our gateway to access devices from work, for example, and also provide a convenient web proxy as a replacement of our VPN. In the following sections, we recapped through some of our use cases:

1. Use of SSH Proxy as a replacement of VPN
2. Connect to home computer via ssh
3. Forward services from home to office
4. Access resources on local LAN from a shared remote

Use of SSH Proxy as a replacement of VPN

Our browser is google-chrome, and we want it to connect to our cloud server via a proxy. Therefore we can configure google-chrome to connect to the internet via the configured proxy. The configuration should make google-chrome dependent on the proxy to be present, otherwise it should not be able to connect to the internet.

Read more in this article.

Connect to home computer via ssh

The problem with a normal home network is that it is hidden behind a NAT. Moreover setting up port forwarding is not exactly trivial for end-user. Therefore, since we have a readily accessible remote server, we can leverage it for our purpose.

Read more in this article.

Forward services from home to office

We have some services that we would like to be made available at office for convenience reason. For security purposes we have to use ssh tunnels instead of exposing the port from our home network’s port forwarding. It takes one cloud device we control that we utilized as a bridge between our home computer and office computer.

Read more in this article.

Access resources on local LAN from a shared remote

We have certain resources accessible only from home LAN, and we want to connect to them from anywhere. Given that we have a high availability cloud server, we can use it as a reverse proxy to access specific services we wanted to access. A custom configuration is required, and will be outlined in the article below.

Read more in this article.

Hi folks!

In this news I want to announce that our new domain liehendr.com is up! As of now, the site will only function as a reverse proxy of liecorp.id until we have something new to be hosted there. Currently there is no major plan for the site, but I intend to make it as my online resume at a later date.