In November of last year I finished my Software Engineering degree and moved to Wellington to start work at Flux Federation. Flux builds software that runs energy companies like Powershop - an energy retailer in New Zealand, Australia and the United Kingdom. I work as part of the team that...

Last weekend I wanted to see the latest movie trailers. Of course, there are plenty of websites out there for this, however, none of them meet the excitement of watching movie trailers before a film at the cinemas. So thats what I set out to build. First, I needed to...

For a few years now I’ve been wanting to organise a family photo and video archive. Digital content is much easier to deal with, but my family members still have boxes of old photos sitting around in their cupboards. In our case, this is basically everything prior to the year...

I have a Raspberry Pi home server that I can remotely access through a tinc VPN tunnel with my VPS. Most services can be accessed through the tunnel with addresses like plex.crawford.kiwi, but some of them are only available on my local network, for example, SMB and SSH. Accessing these...

My parents just got two IP cameras. These are cameras that connect to your home network to allow access over a computer network. I had some requirements to make the IP cameras useful: Remote Access. Obviously, an IP camera that can only be accessed from the local network isn’t very...

My Raspberry Pi is setup as a home server, providing me access and control of my content through several services: A Deluge server for torrent downloads. A Plex server to manage and stream my media collection. A Pydio server for remote access and management of files. This is great, but...