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So I am currently building a game called Dungeon Designer, the premise of which is you are a company hired by people to design dungeons to prevent heros from stealing the loot that they contain. It’s basically a reverse dungeon crawler. I’m building it in C using raylib Now most games need static assets (such as sprites, audio, etc) in order to work and often times people will just ship the raw files as part of the game. I am personally not a huge fan of that because I just want my games to be very portable, requiring just a single executable (and maybe a library if necessary). ...

This is part 3 of an article series. You can read the previous one here So now that the server can store files, I want to be able to easily monitor it without needing to SSH into it or dig the laptop out from underneath my bed Time to add a monitoring service, preferably with a web interface. dash Looking through awesome-selfhosted (great resource, highly recommend for anyone looking for things to run on their home server) I found a project called dash, a ligthweight web app that allows you to remotely monitor your server. ...

This is part 2 of an article series. You can read the previous one here So now that I have a working server running Debian, we need to actually run useful things on it, otherwise it’s a hunk of plastic sipping electricity under my bed. Why not start with something simple, getting a file server running on here so I can transfer files to/from it. I mean the laptop has 1 TB of storage so I might as well use it. ...

So I’ve always wanted to try building a homelab and experimenting with running my own server, however homelabs are expensive, require a lot of space, and good networking infrastructure. I unfortunately have none of these as I am a broke college student living in a dorm. But thats when I had an idea, I had a bunch of old laptops I used to use lying around at home, why not turn one of those into a server? ...