Jordan Nelson on Atomic Spin

Securely Erase Hard Drives in 6 Easy Steps with nwipe

After using nwipe, you can rest assured that when you recycle your hard drive, no data will be made available to anyone else.

Developer Tools

How I Run Builds and Tests in VSCode Efficiently

I've developed a simple workflow to run builds, tests, and other operations during development that allows me to easily and efficiently examine results.

Extracurricular Activities

Self-Hosting Your Own Cloud – Part 12: Note-taking with Notea

I recently discovered a new app called Notea. It is still early in development but is quite usable and simple in its design.

Extracurricular Activities

Self-Hosting Your Own Cloud – Part 11: Monthly Optical Data Backups

Monthly optical data backups in addition to hard drive backups create an extra level of insurance for me in the event of hardware failure.

Extracurricular Activities

Self-Hosting Your Own Cloud – Part 10: Photos and Videos

How to configure a set of existing tools for photo storage — plus a custom tool I wrote to automatically transfer photos from your phone, sort and de-duplicate them, and make them

Extracurricular Activities

Self-Hosting Your Own Cloud – Part 9: Building a NAS with ZFS

How to set up a fault-tolerant and reliable file server using ZFS.

TypeScript

A Pattern for Type-Safe REST API Requests in TypeScript

How we brought some niceties like schema checking and auto-complete to a REST API. These helpers allowed us to validate responses from the server during development

React / Redux

A Pattern for Type-Safe Redux in TypeScript

A clean and type-safe set of Redux state, action creators, reducers, and selectors that provides a high level of confidence things are configured properly.

Extracurricular Activities

Self-Hosting Your Own Cloud – Part 8: Monitoring Your Internet Traffic with ntopng

A managed switch allows you to copy traffic from one or more ports onto a designated mirror port. You'll have a copy of all traffic moving through your designated ports onto a port

Extracurricular Activities

Self-Hosting Your Own Cloud – Part 7: Building a Personal Private Network with WireGuard

WireGuard let me create a "Personal VPN" — a subnet connecting devices in different physical locations and on to different networks.

Extracurricular Activities

Creating an iPhone-enabled Raspberry Pi Squawk Box

How I built a text-to-speech “Squawk box” using a Raspberry Pi (and some other hardware that I had at home) that works with my iPhone.

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