Author Archives: Varun Sinai Priolkar

My presentation about LXC containers at GDG Devfest, ICG

Yesterday I presented a talk at GDG(Google Developer Group) Devfest about Stop using Docker! Fun with Linux containers and networking. The venue was International Centre Goa. Many people had a lot of doubts. Of course there wasn’t enough time for everyone to get all their queries in and things were a little difficult for many… Read More: My presentation about LXC containers at GDG Devfest, ICG »

Awesome Piwik setup – CDN, evading adblockers, GeoIP and more

My setup guide heavily depends on Nginx so you may have to change a few things if you are using some other web server. But this should be helpful never the less. 🙂 I was looking for a nice Google Analytics alternative since I did not want to trust my user’s data with Google. I… Read More: Awesome Piwik setup – CDN, evading adblockers, GeoIP and more »

Trying out a new social network! – Gab.ai

These are my very personal views and may not reflect yours. Please do understand that as you proceed. 🙂 Twitter and Facebook was censoring trends/tweets of right wing people for a long time now and there was expected to be fall out from that. That has resulted in a new social network called Gab.ai ? .… Read More: Trying out a new social network! – Gab.ai »

Hybrid ECDSA and RSA certificates with Nginx and Let’s Encrypt

There are a myriad of resources on the internet on how to get this working but not as well compiled together as I’d like. That is the reason I am writing this post. 🙂 I am not going to explain what Elliptic Curve Cryptography(ECC) is since Cloudflare has a very nice blog post on this.… Read More: Hybrid ECDSA and RSA certificates with Nginx and Let’s Encrypt »

Backup your website to Backblaze B2 with encryption

This is meant for websites running on a VPS/dedicated servers only. This should work with modifications for static websites but was meant for websites with a database, especially WordPress. I was inspired by the huge number of really expensive and crap plugins for WordPress to handle backups and my guru/buddy Anurag Bhatia to write this… Read More: Backup your website to Backblaze B2 with encryption »

Qualcomm Quick Charge 2.0 on Xiaomi Redmi Note 3

Please do not use this. On newer kernels it fries the phone’s PSU. Note: This is only applicable for the Snapdragon/Pro version of the Redmi Note 3. The Xiaomi Redmi Note 3 has a very good battery life. However Qualcomm Quick charge(QC) 2.0 would massively help with the charging times for the huge 4050 mAh… Read More: Qualcomm Quick Charge 2.0 on Xiaomi Redmi Note 3 »