The David Ones

I've been writing blog posts since 2020, mostly about my random technologic encounters during my day-to-day life. Currently there are 5 blog posts.

Big changes to my website, what they are and why I did them.

I initially thought I didn't need to continue working on my website once I finished it, but it reached the point where I couldn't understand my old codebase properly to add new features, so I decided to rewrite the website to the best of my ability.

Next.jsPersonal WebsiteT3 Stack

7 months ago • 0 views • 0 comments

My experience showcasing one of my projects on Reddit - and how my website's visits tripled.

A couple of months back, I created my own self-hosted dashboard as I didn't like the standard ones that were out there. On October 1st, I decided to post it on r/homelab, and something crazy happened...

Redditr/selfhostedHacker News

over 1 year ago • 0 views • 0 comments

Replace your weak home router, with pfSense!

Recently, I decided to switch from my standard cheap home router, to a custom virtual machine running pfSense on my server. This blog post will contain all the hurdles and issues that I went through, and how you can setup this up for yourself!

Home NetworkpfSenseOpen Source

over 1 year ago • 0 views • 0 comments

How I persist live data in Next.js without waiting for async requests.

While working on one of my projects, I came across a problem with fetching dynamic data from my API. The problem was that I didn't want to do the request on every render, just when I wanted it to be fetched.

Next.jsState ManagementWeb Development

over 1 year ago • 0 views • 0 comments

(OUTDATED) Welcome to my Blog! - The backstory, How it works, etc.

This is my first ever blog post on this website! On this blog post I completely document how the Blog post works, to the seeing how many views it has to storing the actual blog post in the first place. Worth a read!

BloggingWeb DevelopmentNext.JSMDX

almost 2 years ago • 0 views • 0 comments