Avinesh Singh

I had a spare 2.5″ spinning hard drive lying around with USB to SATA adapter. I wanted to share this drive and its content over the home network and the most recommended and obvious solution was to set up a dedicated NAS server. While setting up a NAS server over your Raspberry Pi (or any…

I recently moved from using pfSense to IPFire while still using the same box as my previous setup – which basically meant I had only one ethernet port on my IPFire box, while IPFire supports VLAN capabilities – if you have tried to install IPFire on a similar setup, you would have quickly realized that…

I really wanted to try out pfSense; while I had lots of ARM based single-board computers such as Raspberry Pi, Rock Pi E lying around – I did not have a spare x86 machine to host pfSense on – as pfSense does not support ARM CPU (yet). I had an old laptop that I could…

Why? Raspberry Pi 4 with the 8GB variant is out, and I had to do something about my older Raspberry Pi 2 which was still lying around without much use. I needed an excuse to buy the new Raspberry Pi 8GB variant without feeling guilt about not utilizing the Pi 2 I already had. Guilt…

I know, I know – this is a very controversial topic in React sphere. In this article I am not going to recommend you any state management library (Redux and MobX folks can put your pitch-forks down), nor am I recommending anything “revolutionary”, but something rather interesting, and mildly unconventional that I discovered. Read along…

Aadhaar is a controversial document, especially for privacy enthusiasts; but it did make our lives convenient, especially for first time investors who no longer had to stand in queues and visit broker offices or send letters through snail mail to get their KYC done before they can start investing in SEBI regulated stock market and…