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!

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.

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.

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.

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.

To prevent that, the solution is apparently quite simple: append the hash of the title to our slug. Of course we can’t display a full hash, so we only add the first few characters of the hash value. Therefore the slugs would be more or less unique for most cases, and if the title is not modified, it would always result in the same hash.

Authors are not expected to change the title every now and then though, so use it only to fix typos, and if the article is not yet referenced by other articles.

We are going to reintegrate some blog articles from Static Blog Alpha (SBA). Blog articles from SBA was ancient compared to this website, but due to the difficulties in updating it, and due to the fact that I can’t get a decent URL for SBA, I had to discontinue it for the time being. However it supposedly would gain a new life here!

What it means for everyday visitors though? Basically none! We will have a couple of old SBA articles posted here, and that is all.

Read more on our blog post about it here.

We are proudly presenting auth system! With this update, we are able to log in directly from the website. For registration, currently it is not available to prevent spams and trolls. However we are proudly presenting the fact that you can now explore our site config from admin page. Bear in mind that only registered users can edit the configuration as of now.

See the blog post for more information about what changed with this new update.

1. Basic roles: user and admin. It should be self explanatory: user is for normal users, and admin is for administrative purposes.
2. user can make posts of type post and blog. Blog is available to the blogs feed, while post should only be visible on a user’s profile page.
3. admin beside able to do anything a user can do, can also make a post of type news.
4. admin can unpublish and delete any posts.
5. admin is the only one able to alter site configs.

It might possibly take us some time to implement all of them, therefore you can consider this post as a documentation of what we have planned so far.

And also, Happy New Year!

• able to change which posts are displayed on primary and tertiary section of landing page
• able to change which post is displayed on our About Us page
• able to change which post is used for our footer content
• able to alter various site behavior such as recent blogs or latest news entry limits, and pagination behavior
• able to change pages layout configuration

The admin page is available at /admin route, but obviously for security reasons it would be protected with the same kind of protection as our /posts route (See our blog here).

We plan to have it available for anyone to see (sans edit or create capability) once we finished our authentication implementation.