https://lifemeetscode.com/ Recent content on Life Meets Code Hugo -- gohugo.io en-us Sat, 30 Sep 2017 16:22:30 -0600 https://lifemeetscode.com/about/ Tue, 21 Feb 2023 19:33:28 -0600 https://lifemeetscode.com/about/ Greetings, I’m Adam Kammeyer! I’m a father, recreational developer, manager, avid comic book reader, and wishful cyclist. I’ve been working in I.T. in some fashion for almost 20 years. My current obsessions are my blended family, self-hosting services, and home automation. All the computers in my home run Linux. I may have a Raspberry Pi addiction. My hope is to use this site to share my experiences and my knowledge with the world. https://lifemeetscode.com/posts/deploying-life-meets-code-web-server/ Sat, 30 Sep 2017 16:22:30 -0600 https://lifemeetscode.com/posts/deploying-life-meets-code-web-server/ The first part of this series dealt with setting up and securing the operating system for our server. Now we will take a look at getting Apache up-and-running with TLS. Note: During my initial setup, I used Vultr’s Firewall to only allow traffic from my IP address. That way I could work without the fear of information disclosure. Apache Apache itself is simple to install. We’ll include mod_ssl to allow support for https. https://lifemeetscode.com/posts/deploying-life-meets-code-the-server/ Sat, 26 Aug 2017 16:07:04 -0600 https://lifemeetscode.com/posts/deploying-life-meets-code-the-server/ I want to keep a record of how I configured the server for this site and decided to share that info to help others and (hopefully) improve my setup. I’ve used DigitalOcean in the past, but decided to try out Vultr to host my site. I use CentOS for my servers so I used Vultr’s CentOS 7 x64 image as the base. From my Vultr account dashboard, I chose the $2. https://lifemeetscode.com/posts/fedora-26-upgrade/ Mon, 24 Jul 2017 15:59:54 -0600 https://lifemeetscode.com/posts/fedora-26-upgrade/ Fedora 26 was released on July 11, 2017. Being a Fedora user, I wanted to upgrade immediately. :) Since I didn’t have any issues during the 24 to 25 upgrade, I had confidence this would be as sommoth. I had just reinstalled Fedora 25 a week before 26 was launched so my system was relatively clean. I followed the blog post on upgrading through the Software Center and wanted to share my experience. https://lifemeetscode.com/posts/raspberry-pi-with-gps/ Mon, 22 May 2017 16:40:31 -0600 https://lifemeetscode.com/posts/raspberry-pi-with-gps/ After receiving a Raspberry Pi Zero for Christmas, I struggled to find a project to use it with. I started looking around and came across the MagPi issues that listed project ideas for the Zero and Zero W (a Zero with built-in Wi-FI and Bluetooth). In Issue 40, there was a tutorial on creating a GPS Logger with a Zero. I was already on a path to take more control of my own data and tracking bike routes was one thing that was escaping me. https://lifemeetscode.com/posts/taking-notes-with-nextcloud-qownnotes-and-notebooks/ Wed, 17 May 2017 15:49:10 -0600 https://lifemeetscode.com/posts/taking-notes-with-nextcloud-qownnotes-and-notebooks/ I’ve seen a lot of people on Twitter recently asking for advice on taking notes. Mostly as alternative to Evernote. I’ve shared my setup when I can, but 140 characters only goes so far, so I thought I’d write up something more in-depth. Personally, I like the ability to jot down something on-the-go and then do something with it later. That means I need a way to sync file from my phone to my PC. https://lifemeetscode.com/posts/timing-linux-bash-commands/ Sun, 26 Mar 2017 15:46:03 -0600 https://lifemeetscode.com/posts/timing-linux-bash-commands/ While updating some Vagrant config files, I was curious how long it was taking for a box to build from scratch. I tried dumping out timestamps directly in the Vagrantfile, but ultimately decided to look for a Bash-specific method that would be more universal and let me time some other Linux commands. Here’s what I came up with. Open your .bashrc in your favorite text editor. $ vim ~/.bashrc Add this function to the end of the file https://lifemeetscode.com/posts/detecting-wi-fi-channels-in-linux/ Thu, 09 Mar 2017 08:34:28 -0600 https://lifemeetscode.com/posts/detecting-wi-fi-channels-in-linux/ Recently I’ve been diagnosing some WI-FI connection issues at home and needed a way to find what channels were being used. In the past, I’ve used an app on an old Android phone I had lying around, but decided I needed a more practical way. So I set off to DuckDuckGo for an answer. It didn’t take long to find a couple of nice command-line solutions. First, find the name of your wireless adapter using