Month: May 2026

Hello and welcome back! In this post we are going to address how to create a private Certificate Authority (CA) with opensource tools, mainly Openssl. Having a private certificate authority allows you to trust private sites, for example: a private https server serving content in a private network can be trusted by the browser so you don’t get the annoying security problem.

Let examine the requirements, you will need: Continue reading “Create a WORKING Private Certificate Authority FREE with Openssl”

Welcome back! This post discusses picks up from where “insert article link here” left off. Now that you have the roms loaded and playing games in RetroPie, you notice that the games have no description, images, etc. If you would like to show pretty images and description, this article is for you. Continue reading “RetroPie Screen Scraping with Skyscraper”

What if I tell you that you can run a cloud virtual server with 4CPU, 24GB of RAM, and up t0 200GB of Storage for FREE? Yes you heard right, FREE.

YES You can, the first caveat is that the server is not Intel but ARM (Ampere) based. This should not be an issue in most cases. You can also have for free a smaller 1CPU, 2GB of RAM, and up to 200GB of Storage (storage space is calculated total). The second caveat is that you have to be really careful about not going outside your allowed free quota, the consequence for that is quite expensive. Now that I’ve told you the negatives, let’s proceed how to do that. Continue reading “Running a Free Ampere Instance on Oracle Cloud”

Welcome back. This post describes my adventure in setting up RetroPie to play some of the games I used to play as a child, and also to expose my children to the older games, which in my opinion, are way better than modern games. In most modern games, graphics are the priority and sometimes, the game play is forgotten; well, older games are all about the game play. they were truly fun and captivating. No Internet, no distractions, just you and the game. Continue reading “My Retro Video Games Adventure with Retropie”