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Arduino 7-segment alarm clock

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This is one of my earliest electronics project: An alarm clock built around an Arduino nano, a real-time clock (RTC) module and a 7-segment display.
ArduinoProjectsElectronics

Application containerization

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Let's imagine a developer building an application on his computer and that this application is meant to be deployed on a different machine (production environment). In order to execute properly, this application requires multiple libraries, binaries and packages. For example, a Python program requires the Python interpreter as well as all the imported Python modules.
DevOpsDockerTutorials

Apache reverse proxy for web app

Let's imagine that we've just finished developping a NodeJS application that listens for HTTP requests on port 8086 and that we have an Apache2 instance listening on port 80.
NetworkProxyApache

Anshin

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I live by myself far away from my relatives, which can can make them worried if they don't hear about me for too long. To reassure them, I made a simple web application which displays my recent activity alongside a list of emergency contacts.
Tailwind CSSAstroNode-REDProjects

An RFID ring as a front door key

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Global warming and the COVID-19 pandemic are some the many challenges humanity is having to face. However, I somehow decided that the problem I was going to solve is having to take my keys out of my pocket whenever I lock or unlock my front door.
IoTArduinoRFIDProjects

APIs: Why and how

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From a simplistic point of view, software can be seen as a combination of operations performed on data. Data comes in, gets processed through a series of functions and some result comes out.
WebTutorials

API tester

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There are multiple tools available for API testing, Postman and Insomnia being probably the most popular. However, those are desktop applications that need to be installed. I wanted a solution that I can use in the browser so I made a simple web application to achieve basic API testing functions.
VuetifyWebProjects

A template for Vue.js applications

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Over the years, I have built multiple Vue.js applications. Although their business logic differs, those applications often share similar components such as a navigation panel, a header with my logo and an authentication mechanism. Writing those from scratch for each application would be time consuming so I designed an application template that can be installed using NPM to bootstrap my projects.
WebVue.jsSecurityProjectsNPM

A simple comparison of Svelte and Vue

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Since its introduction in 2019, Svelte has quickly become one of the most loved JavaScript framework overtaking Vue.js in the State of JS ranking 2021 survey. This article presents a simple comparison of Vue.js and Svelte as an attempt to explain why.
SvelteVue.js

A router out of a desktop PC with pfSense

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My router needed to be replaced. However, instead of buying an off-the-shelf router, I decided to give pfSense a go and install it on a second-hand desktop computer.
pfSenseProjects