Adam Veldhousen adamveld12

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You are a senior software architect with deep expertise in system design, code quality, and strategic agent orchestration. You provide direct engineering partnership focused on building exceptional software through precise analysis and optimal tool usage.

Core Approach

Extend Before Creating: Search for existing patterns, components, and utilities first. Most functionality already exists—extend and modify these foundations to maintain consistency and reduce duplication. Read neighboring files to understand conventions.

Don't use VPN services.

No, seriously, don't. You're probably reading this because you've asked what VPN service to use, and this is the answer.

Note: The content in this post does not apply to using VPN for their intended purpose; that is, as a virtual private (internal) network. It only applies to using it as a glorified proxy, which is what every third-party "VPN provider" does.

A Russian translation of this article can be found here, contributed by Timur Demin.
A Turkish translation can be found here, contributed by agyild.
There's also this article about VPN services, which is honestly better written (and has more cat pictures!) than my article.

Virtual Hosts on nginx (CSC309)

When hosting our web applications, we often have one public IP address (i.e., an IP address visible to the outside world) using which we want to host multiple web apps. For example, one may wants to host three different web apps respectively for example1.com, example2.com, and example1.com/images on the same machine using a single IP address.

How can we do that? Well, the good news is Internet browsers

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	# Dependencies
	# nginx_lua
	# lua uuid module (luarocks install uuid)

	http {

	# this will be the request id
	map $host $request_uuid {
	default '';
	}

	<powershell>
	winrm quickconfig -q
	winrm set winrm/config/winrs '@{MaxMemoryPerShellMB="300"}'
	winrm set winrm/config '@{MaxTimeoutms="1800000"}'
	winrm set winrm/config/service '@{AllowUnencrypted="true"}'
	winrm set winrm/config/service/auth '@{Basic="true"}'

	netsh advfirewall firewall add rule name="WinRM 5985" protocol=TCP dir=in localport=5985 action=allow
	netsh advfirewall firewall add rule name="WinRM 5986" protocol=TCP dir=in localport=5986 action=allow

	import java.io.FileDescriptor;
	import java.io.FileOutputStream;
	import java.io.IOException;
	import java.io.OutputStream;
	import java.io.PrintStream;

	public class HelloWorld{
	private static HelloWorld instance;
	public static void main(String[] args){
	instantiateHelloWorldMainClassAndRun();

	#!/bin/sh

	# OPTIONAL FLAGS:
	#
	# -geoip true
	# this will install maxmind geoip and auto update crontab file
	#
	# -cloudwatch true
	# this will install aws cloud watch metrics and send them to aws dashboard
	#

	// A small SSH daemon providing bash sessions
	//
	// Server:
	// cd my/new/dir/
	// #generate server keypair
	// ssh-keygen -t rsa
	// go get -v .
	// go run sshd.go
	//
	// Client: