Chronicles of Curiosity and Creativity
or a collection of random bits from a madman.
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asdf.me website?
Not sure why I’m making a raccoon themed website at 2am for one of my staging domains. But I like how this turned out. Looks cute. Check it out
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DirectAdmin Automatic SSL Certificates with 3rd Party DNS and reverse proxy (example with CloudFlare)
This is a fairly simple solution done entirely in GUI, but something I had great difficulty finding the answer to from anywhere else. If you use another DNS and/or reverse proxy service such as CloudFlare, the DirectAdmin’s auto SSL feature doesn’t work anymore since both ZeroSSL and Let’s Encrypt provided in DirectAdmin is no longer…
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Cast H&H Hanayama Puzzle – How to Solve (all versions)
This ©Hanayama Cast H&H puzzle actually seems to come with few different versions for which the solutions are actually different. My box is marked with SC23-V 1352 in emboss, though I’m not actually certain if that’s how they track the variations. My solution at the end may be different from yours. But that’s okay! This…
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VMWare and “Virtualized AMD-V/RVI is not supported on this platform”
Rather old issue, but still a persistent one if you use VMWare. Three things to try (as of 2025 for Windows version 24H2). Each of these requires a reboot to make the actual change. Hypervisor Launch Type In cmd with administrator: Windows Subsystem for Linux Open Optional Features, and go to More Windows features Make…
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2025 Site Update!
Oh. Seems I’ve missed my yearly blog post and skipped 2024. Quite a lot happened for me in 2024. Made a round trip around the world visiting 5 countries; Germany, Korea, Philippines, Japan, and Swiss. Advanced in my business and career. Altered course for my life. Despite potentially having a lot to share, I guess…
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Stable Diffusion – AI Art
Art is a career path I cut off fairly early in my life. While I enjoyed drawing and have attended art classes until end of high school, I found my calling elsewhere in computer science. But art has never left me from my professional career. Through web and product design as well as photography, it…
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It’s 2022, and a website I created for a hobby in 2001 lives on.
Wow, it is 2022. And I’m maintaining a website, called Arts of Arc Headquarters, that no one has likely visited for over a decade now. It’s a website dedicated to my gaming clan dating all the way back to 2001. We played a game called Attack Retrieve Capture (ARC) and have been part of many…
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Handy Base Converter in Javascript
Just a simple handy javascript I found on stackoverflow for converting any arbitrary base for any precision. Whether it be base 10 to 64, base 2, base 32, etc. I plan to convert it to other language(s) someday for further use. Full credits of this code to the link above. This is mostly a self…
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New (_blank) Window Icon for Accessibility
Found this really simple and clean CSS solution to adding new window icon.
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cPanel/WHM’s annoying default webpage redirect cache
Solution Edit the following file: And add the following line of code in the <head> That’s it! The Problem Ever configure something wrong in cPanel/WHM and then you land on the default webpage that looks something like this? Which says something like… Sorry!If you are the owner of this website, please contact your hosting provider:…
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How to use NewRelic with SELinux
NewRelic doesn’t seem to work with SELinux out of the box and it appears it’s out of the scope of NR’s support. So, here’s how to run NR while having SELinux protection. First, we’re going to create the rule file: # mkdir ~/newrelic # cd ~/newrelic # nano newrelic.te The contents of the file should…
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Protected: Cron jobs, the pros and cons of multiple ways to set them
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“This theme is kinda interesting.”
Peter
Owner, Grumpyland