iangge Blog Lore Fun Fact: The favicon of this blog (aka the browser tab icon) is a monarch butterfly because I used to be obsessed with butterflies as a kid. My parents would buy me so many books...
Background Part of my job as a Computer Technician is performing hardware repairs for laptops under warranty. Today, a laptop came in that had a flickering screen. It would only boot up with Windo...
Hello blog, it’s been a while since I’ve posted, but I promise I have been active. This past school year has been my senior year at Cal Poly Pomona, so I’ve been trying to gain as much experience a...
As a member of SWIFT’s (Students with an Interest in the Future of Technology) intern board, I helped put together a beginner friendly penetration-testing competition known as SCARE (SWIFT Crack At...
Background on Maplestory I’ve been playing this game called Maplestory for a while, and the current update v262 caused an error where the game would not launch after trying to start it from Steam ...
Recently, I created a blog theme for Jekyll called Lined Paper after being inspired by this site’s theme, Chirpy. When following Jekyll’s step-by-step tutorial, I noticed it mentioned how layouts i...
Docker Volumes Docker volumes are used as persistent storage for containers to allow data to be stored even if those containers are stopped or deleted. This type of storage is separate from bind m...
Background I was setting up Docker containers in WSL2 and wanted to access a self-hosted web service from my local network but was unable to connect to it. After speaking with my mentor, he showed ...
Background on Makefiles Recently, I’ve learned about Makefiles (Thanks again to Slava). Make is a command line tool, typically used for compiling and maintaining code for software in languages lik...
Hello, I will be setting up a basic nginx web server on Windows as practice for learning some concepts about web servers and networking. Feel free to follow along. 1. Downloading Nginx on Windows ...