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Benjamin Porter

Benjamin Porter

Create Your Own Self-hosted, Internet-facing, Production-ready Audiobookshelf Server

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Mar 11

A large and spacious personal library with warm and inviting lighting

Mar 11

Benjamin Porter

I'm still digesting it so as to approach it rationally instead of emotinally, but overall I'm quite…

Jul 6, 2023

Jul 6, 2023

Benjamin Porter

Converting VMware to KVM: Rapid7’s “Metasploitable 2”

Converting a VMware VM to KVM isn’t hard but can be tricky if you don’t know what to do. Here’s how to convert the Metasploitable2 VM to…

Jun 20, 2022

Converting VMware to KVM: Rapid7’s “Metasploitable 2”

Jun 20, 2022

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DNS Debugging with dig

DNS records are a critical part of any internet presence, and debugging them is likewise critical. Dig can be used to easily examine DNS…

May 7, 2022

Man about to dig a hole

May 7, 2022

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The Rules of Clean and (Mostly) Painless Migrations

Here are the rules to follow for clean and (mostly) painless migrations.

Mar 15, 2022

The tail of a migrating whale sticks out above the ocean water.

Mar 15, 2022

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What are Database Migrations?

Database migrations are a series of scripts or steps that modify a database schema to fit the needs of your application.

Mar 15, 2022

What are Database Migrations?

Mar 15, 2022

Benjamin Porter

Wrapping Lines in Vim at Character or Word Boundaries

How do you tell vim to wrap lines at word or character boundaries?

Feb 24, 2022

Feb 24, 2022

Benjamin Porter

Two Weeks with Starlink

This changes everything

Apr 15, 2021

Starlink dish on tripod in my yard

Apr 15, 2021

Benjamin Porter

Introduction to “oc” — the OpenShift Command Line Power Tool

Learn to use the ultimate efficiency and automation power house tool for configuring and using OpenShift, the Kubernetes-based PaaS

Jan 8, 2021

Introduction to “oc” — the OpenShift Command Line Power Tool

Jan 8, 2021

Benjamin Porter

CentOS is NOT dead. Please Stop Saying It Is (at least until you read this)

Since the news broke Tuesday about the changing role of CentOS (aka the death of CentOS) my inbox and chat have exploded with questions…

Dec 12, 2020

CentOS is NOT dead. Please Stop Saying It Is (at least until you read this)

Dec 12, 2020

Benjamin Porter

Benjamin Porter

Ben Porter is a Software Engineer who specializes in distributed applications (like web apps). He is currently Chief Technology Officer (CTO) at Ameelio.org

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