Guess which hobby I picked up in 2021

Reddit knows!
Reddit knows!
I was gonna post this on my Linkedin by decided against it, trying to keep it professional, ya know.
Replaced Rockstor with OMG on my little ChocolateBox NAS. At first glance it appears to be better than Rockstor in pretty much every way except the front end. As a designer I’m always greatly bothered by subpar UIs, even those belonging to FOSS. Just spent an hour or two reimagining this part of OMV if it was created with a more modern design language:
So I’ve been fiddling around with remote management tools for my home server recently, after accidentally discovering Cockpit after installing Fedora (it comes preinstalled with Fedora Server 34), I started looking around for alternatives. Don’t get me wrong Cockpit is great but being a DIY I always wanted to see what kind of options are out there.
During my search I came across a vaguely familiar name: Webmin. I had limited experience with Webmin before when I was searching for a decent web panel for my VPS since it is the basis on which Virtualmin is based on. I quickly dropped it due to the horribly outdated UI (it’s a designer’s quirk, don’t ask).
Revisiting it a few years later, I just couldn’t believe my eyes when I first fire up the program, the difference is like Night and Day! Even literally more so since the current version even includes a proper dark mode that can be toggled in real time! How awesome is that?
Check out this before-after comparison:
In argumentation theory, an argumentum ad populum is a fallacious argument that concludes that a proposition must be true because many or most people believe it, often concisely encapsulated as: “If many believe so, it is so”.
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For those following my post the last couple of weeks, you’d know I’ve been obsessed with building up my home server system, so much so that I made the grave mistake of exposing my computer to the world wide web through the use of DMZ (De-Militarized Zone).
Long story shot.
I’ve been hacked.
And $3,000 was stolen from my wife’s MasterCard.
What’s done is done, I’m here to tell you about what exactly what went down, how the attacker did it and how you can avoid the same mistake I did.
Let’s get started
Read MoreI absolutely love qBittorrent but as an UI Designer, one thing that doesn’t sit well with me is its 1990-esque web interface. While they do allow you to load your custom CSS, there wasn’t a lot you could do with it beyond changing a few colors, and even the most downloaded themes in the community still only looks marginally better.
Read MoreMy wife asked me for a ‘generic’ banner to act as a placeholder on her e-learning website, said I could put whatever I want on it as long as it looks colorful and school related.
I’m pretty sure I delivered.
And yet she’s still mad at me.
Dunno why.
Women, amirite?
Which one should I choose?
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