cavecafe https://cavecafe.cc/ A small Flutter widget that shows the environment and device information right on your app screen - If you’ve ever had a long Slack thread (or JIRA) or meeting over a single bug screenshot, this might sound familiar: “Which environment (DEV/QA/PROD) did this bug happen in?” “iPhone or Android?” “Which iPhone model?” “Android? Which brand?” “What’s the OS version?” “Hmm… latest, I think.” “Build number?” “This screenshot’s... Mon, 03 Nov 2025 00:00:00 -0500 https://cavecafe.cc/2025-11-03-which-version-did-that-bug-appear-in/ https://cavecafe.cc/2025-11-03-which-version-did-that-bug-appear-in/ Build a Free Dev Backend Network with Cloudflare Tunnel - Build a Free Dev Backend Network with Cloudflare Tunnel - Secure Access Without Port Forwarding For the resourceful developer team: a practical way to make your backend accessible from anywhere, for free. Most teams rely on cloud infrastructure to expose their development backend to the outside world. But do you... Thu, 30 Oct 2025 00:00:00 -0400 https://cavecafe.cc/2025-10-30-cloudflare-tunnel-as-dev-server-network/ https://cavecafe.cc/2025-10-30-cloudflare-tunnel-as-dev-server-network/ A New Library for Automatic Renewal of Let's Encrypt Certificates - Automatic Renewal of Let’s Encrypt Certificates without Lock yourself to any Cloud Provider As software engineers, we constantly strive to strike a balance between security and efficiency. SSL certificate management is a prime example of this. While Let’s Encrypt has revolutionized web security by offering free SSL certificates, many companies... Sat, 29 Jun 2024 00:00:00 -0400 https://cavecafe.cc/2024-06-29-sparrow-cert-auto-cert-renewal/ https://cavecafe.cc/2024-06-29-sparrow-cert-auto-cert-renewal/ Minimum Automation of Kubernetes Deployment for .NET Core API using GitHub Actions - In previous posts, we explored setting up a HomeLab Kubernetes Cluster, connecting it to a Load Balancer, and deploying a simple Java Spring Boot API to the Cluster. This time, we’ll delve into creating and automatically deploying a simple .NET Core API in the similar ways. We’ll also utilize GitHub... Sun, 05 May 2024 00:00:00 -0400 https://cavecafe.cc/2024-05-05-homelab-k8s-deploy-dotnet-core/ https://cavecafe.cc/2024-05-05-homelab-k8s-deploy-dotnet-core/ A guide to setting up your IIS just like a hosting provider - Google Domains Dynamic DNS Let’s Encrypt SSL certificate setup with auto-renewal With modernized ASP.NET Core Perfectly working as Blog or API backend There are a number of choices for hosting a web server at home as mentioned in my previous story here. I realized that I did not go through... Thu, 23 Apr 2020 00:00:00 -0400 https://cavecafe.cc/2020-04-23-free-server-hosting-home/ https://cavecafe.cc/2020-04-23-free-server-hosting-home/ There's lots to learn! - This is a demo post to show you how to write blog posts with markdown. I strongly encourage you to take 5 minutes to learn how to write in markdown - it’ll teach you how to transform regular text into bold/italics/tables/etc.I also encourage you to look at the code that... Fri, 28 Feb 2020 00:00:00 -0500 https://cavecafe.cc/2020-02-28-sample-markdown/ https://cavecafe.cc/2020-02-28-sample-markdown/ Smart Door Lock with Raspberry Pi and Apple HomeKit - from: Medium cavecafe DIY Smart Door Lock with Apple HomeKit Integration There are a number of smart door lock in the market. Those smart locks are really convenient especially cold and windy winter season. When you arrived at your driveway or in front of the door, you just talk to... Wed, 01 Jan 2020 00:00:00 -0500 https://cavecafe.cc/2020-01-01-hey-siri-open-my-storm-door/ https://cavecafe.cc/2020-01-01-hey-siri-open-my-storm-door/ A guide to setting up your home server just like a hosting provider - Yes, you can use your internet domains No more complaint on browser warnings as ‘not secure’ Web server, telnet, ssh, sftp, you name it Set up your network to work on ‘any’ OSes Nowadays, cloud services are everywhere. There are a lot of competitions among cloud service providers. Some companies... Mon, 30 Dec 2019 00:00:00 -0500 https://cavecafe.cc/2019-12-30-how-to-setup-home-server-in-a-realistic-way/ https://cavecafe.cc/2019-12-30-how-to-setup-home-server-in-a-realistic-way/