Technical Memories

Just now, as I was checking my Facebook account, a memory notification came in - and this is my story post last 5 years ago. If I remember correctly, this was my very first time generating an SSL/TLS certificate on a free domain name and shared web hosting. I test to deploy a WordPress website with this. Time flies so fast. Last 5 years ago, I was just exploring how to deploy a website through shared hosting....

November 9, 2024 · 1 min · 196 words · Jephte Llamzon

Exploring Automation

One of the things I need to do with my current job is to optimize my workflow and find ways to automate some of my side tasks. With that, I also find ways to apply automation to my personal workflow. Finding automation workflow tool I explore some free workflow automation tools available and I come up and the selfhosted n8n. I also created my very first automation after banging my head for several hours (just kidding)....

October 20, 2024 · 2 min · 424 words · Jephte Llamzon

PGP/GPG Resources

I just recently updated my personal PGP/GPG keys and I thought that I must drop some great resources here for beginners or who wants to delve into this archaic yet great technology. Alan Eliasen GPG Tutorial - A really comprehensive tutorial about GPG Curtis Wallen Beginner Guide - A beginners guide (internet archive copy) Dev Dungeon - Another GPG Tutorial Backup and Restore GPG Keys - A simplified tutorial for backing up and restoring your keys...

February 4, 2024 · 1 min · 101 words · Jephte Llamzon

Capstone Project Lessons

Part of completing our bachelor’s degree is to take and finish a capstone project. This is quite common in the IT field, and it involves creating an application or system and a manuscript for research and documentation. We are tasked to form a group and find a client who will benefit from our project. With that, we created a web-based system for them that will hopefully help their business to thrive....

September 7, 2023 · 5 min · 946 words · Jephte Llamzon

Lesson Learned: Don't Blindly Use Any Image Host

I recently had to create an HTML page as a midterm output for one of my courses. One of the requirements set by my professor is that the images must be hosted in a different location on the web, since only one file (index.html) can be passed. To meet this requirement, I looked for an external image host. The first one I used banned me from using their services because I had pointed my assets to their website....

January 31, 2023 · 3 min · 538 words · Jephte Llamzon

Hello World

Hello, my dear reader. I am writing my obligatory first blog entry, which also marks the existence of my website today. Actually, I just recently bought this domain name just a few days ago after waiting for it to be deleted and released by the domain registry. I’m very glad that no one (except me) was interested in this domain when it was released. This site is very important for me, especially because it also has my first name....

April 30, 2022 · 1 min · 143 words · Jephte Llamzon