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Laptop Repaste

Sep 20, 2025

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intersectRaven

in DIY, Documentation, Just to Share, Optimization, Spring Cleaning, Thermals

My main workstation is currently the ASUS Zephyrus G14 GA402RK which is approximately 3 years old at the time of this post and I’ve been noticing temp problems more and more. I’ve been cleaning the fans and grills but it…
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Replacing Nginx with Traefik

Sep 18, 2025

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intersectRaven

in Just to Share, Networking, Optimization, Traefik

Now that I’ve had experience with Traefik while switching to Pangolin and enabling all sorts of plugins just to play with it, I’ve thought, why not replace all my other deployments with Traefik. I sort of got addicted to the…
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Deploying Pangolin

Aug 19, 2025

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intersectRaven

in Just to Share, Networking, Pangolin, Security, Wireguard

I’ve been having headaches with SSL VPNs recently so I’ve decided to try and deploy an alternative but first test it on my own site/s. As the title indicates, I’ve selected Pangolin. It’s quite…interesting. If all my tests succeed over…
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Podman Switch Attempt

Jul 24, 2025

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intersectRaven

in Containerization, Documentation

Today I made the difficult decision to switch back to Docker instead of Podman. It’s nice and all but, for production use, it’s just not “there” yet. It’s too clunky that it’ll take me quite some time to reform my…
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Alternate Day Fasting

Jul 12, 2025

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intersectRaven

in Health, Just to Share

It’s been 2 weeks since I’ve started alternate day fasting with 1 optional cheat day each week and I’m quite pleased with the results. I’ve already lost 10lbs in those 2 weeks. My brain has also been quite active after…
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About the author

The author has had more than 15 years of experience as a Systems Administrator & Senior Programmer. As a Systems Administrator, he’s had exposure to managing Oracle, and MS SQL database systems and also a range of servers from Windows NT4 to Windows Server 2016 together with being responsible for managing a host of workstations with a myriad of operating systems from Windows 2000 to Windows 11. As a Senior Programmer, he’s mainly involved in C# programming of ERP systems and integration software for different parts of the company. He has also delved in side projects involving other C style languages like Android where he was known as intersectRaven in the XDA community. A minor patch was accepted into the Linux kernel, and another patch for device enablement was accepted into another open-source project.

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Laptop Repaste

Replacing Nginx with Traefik

Deploying Pangolin

Podman Switch Attempt

Alternate Day Fasting