For a while, I have been wanting to maintain my CV/Resume in a simple text format, which allows me to version control it and maintain it easily. I have been trying several things, like using markdown to PDF converters together with GitHub actions, and I recently tried creating. My own markdown to PDF resume generator supporting live preview and predefined themes. But somehow none of these exercises gave me the maintainable resume/CV I was aiming for. ...
The Case for DNS-Level Ad Blocking: From Pi-hole to NextDNS The Setup Sometime ago, I decided try out DNS-level ad blocking just to see how much of my daily internet traffic was being hijacked by ads and trackers. I set up Pi-hole using Docker on my laptop and configured my router to route all DNS queries through it. After sometime, I could see a breakdown of my network traffic—ads, trackers, and more, all being filtered out effortlessly. It was kinda cool but alarming at the same time because the sheer percentage of queries being blocked. ...
I have always wanted to move away from wordpress and start writing my blogs in Markdown. Hell, I event thought of keeping the wordpress blog as it is and publish content off GitLab or GitHub to it. But I always felt like it’s better to move on to a static site with my own domain. So finally I found the time to setup everything an get back on blogging again. ...