My random discoveries

Hello World! This is a place to gather my thoughts.

What do I use Cloudflare for ?

2022-09-10 Tips zilberd

Until end of last year, I was having , what I thought was, a very simple DNS setup.
A was paying a public registar for a domain, in my case OVHCloud, then I would delegate to Azure and to Google DNS some subdomain starting by azure or google.

It has lots of advantages as I could easily manage those DNS from the respective portal or console.

Now CloudFlare is at a central place of my setup:

  • Registar
  • Cache
  • DNS server + DNSSEC + IP masking
  • SSL/TLS management
  • WAF
  • DDOS
  • and more like mTLS for added security
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Vscode Server

2022-09-09 Tips zilberd

Something small today, it has been a busy day, and I am all alone with two kids to feed and occupy :D.

When I am not at home or if I can’t work directly on github, I like to use vscode server.
This is a service in private preview meaning you need to register to get access to it.

When everything is setup yiz either get an url to connect to or you can go directly to https://vscode.dev/.

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Viruses and more

2022-09-06 Tips zilberd
Nothing technical today. The whole family is under attack by the viruses and microbes. Is is back to school after all. I spent the last day resting and sleeping. Yesterday legos article was prepared (I made the photos the days before) but I have nothing for today. Ipad to the rescue So I am writing this article on my iPad and will try to publish it directly from GitHub by using the web vscode like editor. Continue reading