DNSao - Quick and Private DNS Forwadder
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Just a quick post to show one of my latest projects, DNSao.
After running Pi-hole a few years as my home dns server, there were two things that bothered me in how it worked:
no way to send queries upstream in a private protocol: pi-hole is great for blocking unwanted dns queries, but it only supports open udp queries to upstream servers. That means that your ISP (or any middle agent) can sniff your queries, they are plain to be checked.
After a few years maintaining a blog in Jekyll (not this one, this one is in Hugo), I started wanting to migrate to WordPress on a VPS. The reasons were many:
the blog started growing in the number of posts, which made writing new ones more sluggish, due to Jekyll’s slowness and the lack of motivation that this slowness causes
a feeling of “immobility” from Jekyll, almost as if it isn’t evolving anymore
A while ago I had an acquaintance who joined the company where I worked as a backend developer. As a member of a team I was closely associated with, I observe how well he performed in some tasks.
No one designed workflows like him, and his communication with the business area was excellent. He was loved by the entire team because he was always very present, always very willing. However, some members of his team expressed concern because he seemed to avoid more technical tasks.
A few weeks ago, a post went viral on LinkedIn: A company had the idea of firing an employee in a humane way, with a decorated basket of treats and words of appreciation.
Many people criticized and opposed this attitude: How does this help a professional in such a delicated situation?
These are very pertinent criticisms.
The idea of a management that treats employees well is important, leaving in the past the rigid hierarchical concept, but there is a limit.
The day before yesterday I received an email with a simple question:
“What do I need to do to start and thrive in my web developer career?”
The direct answer is easy: study, train and learn from experiences. In eagerness to be done with my inbox, that’s what I thought of answering.
But it’s a good question, and if you start to dissect the idea a little, you realize that while the straight answer isn’t wrong, there are some points that will be more stressed throughout your career, and if you can strengthen those points, it will help not only in your entry and stabilization in the market, but it will also serve as a base when you are already experienced.