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Close to Your Heart
Build your own pulsemeter
A pulsemeter built with a Raspberry Pi, a digital-to-analog converter, and an optical sensor monitors your heart rate just as well as many far more expensive medical devices.
Key Keeper
Data Security in the AWS Cloud
As a cloud market leader, Amazon Web Services has had to put a great deal of thought into data security. Encryption options and key management play an important role.
Tutorial – LÖVE animation
A LÖVE animation primer
LÖVE is an extension of the Lua language, designed to make developing games easy. In this tutorial, we'll explore this framework by creating some animated sprites.
Sync or Swim
Synchronize your data across multiple devices with Syncthing
If you need a cloudless solution for syncing data across multiple devices, Syncthing could be just the thing.
Number Game
Getting started with the R data analysis language
The R programming language is a universal tool for data analysis and machine learning.
Mini Miner
Mining the Monero cryptocurrency the CLI way
The Monero cryptocurrency lets you get in the game without spending thousands on hardware. We'll show you how.
Looking for Cracks
Enumerating resources with feroxbuster and ffuf
A cyberattack unfolds in stages. The enumeration phase is when the attacker looks for holes in the target system. Tools like feroxbuster and ffuf bring the power of automation to the search.
Easy Wires
Manage your VPNs with WireGuard Easy
WireGuard is a less complex VPN solution compared to OpenVPN and IPsec. WireGuard Easy simplifies the process even further by allowing you to operate a VPN and manage clients through a user-friendly web interface.
Private Viewing
Bring privacy to social media with LibRedirect
The LibRedirect browser extension redirects YouTube, Instagram, Reddit, TikTok, and other services to alternative, privacy-friendly front ends.
Bash Your Website
Bash tricks for web maintenance
Use tools such as grep and sed to find and fix broken links.
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