Abdullah Irfan

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Migrating from WordPress to Hugo and shifting to AWS Cloudfront

February 3, 2019 · 2 minute read

Back in November 2018, the database on my WordPress installation for abdullahirfan.com crashed for some reason. I tried a simple mysql service restart on the centos VM but had no luck.
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Installing Openshift Origin natively on an AWS Lightsail VM powered by Ubuntu 16.04

August 3, 2018 · 2 minute read

Setup a LightSail VM with at least 4Gb of RAM Go to the Networking tab, and set all ports to open in the Firewall section on AWS Get the latest Openshift release from their Github Extract everything to an openshift folder.
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GateSentry updates

November 5, 2017 · 1 minute read

Tags: gatesentry

Found some free time this weekend, decided to put it to use with some long needed updates to GateSentry. I’ve just pushed an update to the update server, which means if you’re using GateSentry, your client should update to the latest build automatically 🙂 .
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GateSentry Raspberry Pi : Updating the expired certificate

October 5, 2017 · 1 minute read

Tags: gatesentry

If you’re using GateSentry’s Raspberry Pi image, you might be seeing some certificate expiry errors in your browser as of 2nd October 2017.
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Building a simple serverless CRUD app powered by Lambda and DynamoDB

September 29, 2017 · 5 minute read

Amazon web services has a very comprehensive set of documentation when it comes to cloud providers. But the readability is, quite frankly, terrible.
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Writing a simple Async React Redux app in 20 minutes

September 28, 2017 · 5 minute read

Note: This tutorial is designed for people, who’re already aware of the Flux based design process which react-redux enforces. In this tutorial we are going to simply call a backend API and retrieve some data from it using react-redux.
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A simple React + Redux application bootstrap template

April 17, 2017 · 3 minute read

I often find myself wasting time setting up a base for frontend projects involving both React and Redux. Instead of doing it from scratch every single time, thought I’d just commit a brain dump here on my blog.
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GateSentry : A newer version is finally here!

March 28, 2017 · 1 minute read

Tags: gatesentry

Since last year’s release, I decided to do a complete rewrite of GateSentry in Golang. I decided to ditch both Squid and Dansguardian (which are both extremely awesome) because they make it a little difficult to package and ship GateSentry as a single cross platform binary.
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Releasing GateSentry Beta v.10

May 29, 2016 · 3 minute read

Update as of March 2017 – I’ve released a newer version that works on Windows/Mac/Linux too! Check it out here.
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Tracking iPhones through iCloud

March 17, 2015 · 2 minute read

If you’re like me; someone whose parents get super-worried if you miss their phone calls when it gets late and you’re on a night out with your friends.
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