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Jason

Jason loves computer technology and helping others find solutions to technical problems. He lives in south western Pennsylvania with his two dogs and daylights as an IT professional.

Setup a Bluesky server on Digital Ocean

Setup a Bluesky server on Digital Ocean

Last week I took the plunge and started using Bluesky, the microblogging Twitter-like platform designed to be decentralized and portable. Thinking ahead, I decided to setup my own Bluesky personal data server (PDS) instead of signup for the default provider. This affords me greater control of my data and peace

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Build your own web server at home

Many of us have powerful internet connections at home with symmetrical upload and download speeds. Let's build a web server to take full advantage of all that bandwidth! Some pre-flight checks before we dive in: * We will be replacing your existing router with pfSense and re-configuring the network.

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Why I left Windows

I love the personal computer as an idea. It's open and accessible to everyone, endlessly configurable, ubiquitous and empowering. Be it a Mac, x86 clone or more niche machines like a Raspberry Pi, the personal computer has been a driver of innovation and creativity for the better part

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PDF printing on Windows Server 2003...in 2023 😱

I really enjoy making old technology do things once thought impossible. This past winter, my organization wanted to explore what it would take to produce PDFs of invoices from our depreciated Windows NT Jbase accounting application. Natively, the app can only send print jobs to NT printers on the server