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GateSentry Portfolio Hi ! I’m Abdullah, a software engineer with a passion for building detailed and user-focused applications that are a joy to look at and easy to use. 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. Continue reading 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. Continue reading 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 ? . Continue reading 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. Continue reading 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. Continue reading 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. Continue reading 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. Continue reading 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. Continue reading 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. Continue reading 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. Continue reading Next © 2019...