brandonginn.net

This is the default welcome page of brandonginn.net

I can't seem to keep a website up to save my life.. perhaps I've been making it over-complicated with too much PHP and MySQL and things.. So, Maybe I'll just stick with plain ol' HTML and CSS.

Page editing soundtrack:

This document was edited on Squirrel Appreciation Day 2025!

Some interesting squirrel facts! (provided by The National Wildlife Foundation... Donate!)

Squirrels can find food buried beneath a foot of snow.
A squirrels front teeth never stop growing.
Squirrels may lose 25% of their buried food to thieves.
They zig-zag to escape predators.
Squirrels may pretend to bury a nut to throw off potential thieves.
A newborn squirrel is about an inch long.
Humans introduced squirrels to most of our major city parks.
Squirrels are acrobatic, intelligent, and adaptable.
They get bulky to stay warm during the winter.
Squirrels don't dig up all of their buried nuts, which results in more trees!

Have some links.

rebble.io : aftermarket software for the Pebble smartwatch.
Francine : A fancy Linux console login replacement that doesn't seem to work though i wish it would. :(
knock : a port knocking client/server which works fine with ufw.. No iptables comamnds necessary. security through obscurity. yay!
Knock on Ports : a port knocking client for android, Also available on F-droid and the source is available on github.
libpam-google-authenticator The official Google authenticator PAM module. 2fa for your Linux login.
Connecting a physical DEC VT420 to Linux. This was very helpful connecting my vt510 to the Raspberry Pi 5.
Wyze Bridge : A Docker container that provides various video streams for Wyze brand security cameras. Useful for..
Home Assistant : Open source software for home automation.
GNU Screen : The only terminal multiplexer.
GNU Nano : a fork of Pico, the editor in the email client, Pine, with additional features.
Avahi : An implementation of the mDNS/DNS-SD protocol suite like the Apple-branded "Bonjour" and "Zeroconf". It facilitates service discovery on a local network and provides simple hostname resolution to their respective IP addresses.
Uncomplicated Firewall (ufw) : A simple frontend for iptables.
rtl_433 : A generic data receiver, mainly for the 433.92 MHz, 868 MHz (SRD, 315 MHz, 345 MHz, and 915 MHz ISM bands. With a RTLSDR dongle, I can read the temperature and humidity from an Acurite weather station
raspotify : a headless spotify connect client that mostly just works. Originally designed for use on a Raspberry Pi but can work on other architectures.
Hifiberry : A company that makes HIFI audio HATs for the Raspberry Pi.
Sleep as Android : Not Open source but still a great sleep tracking app with support for many wearables (pebble) and integrations.
VT100.net : Interesting information about terminals.
Nest audio : Command smart things to do smart things. Supposedly will eventually have Gemini..

By default, this document is rooted in the default index.html file that comes with apache2.

Also, I edited this index on a vt510 connected to a Raspberry Pi 5.

Apache is running on a Raspberry pi 4 with a tunnel and DNS provided by Cloudflare.

SSL Certificate provided by The Electronic Frontier Foundation's Certbot


		pi@tEHgibs0n:/var/log/feedback $ cat PROBLEMS.log >> /dev/null

		Thanks for all the fish,
		Brandon.