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Re:SSH tunnels from first principles – with a working self-hosted setup on Wednesday August 12, 2026 @12:20PM (#49274864)

Built this out of my self-hosted VPS setup. Covers local and remote forwarding, the GatewayPorts gotcha, bastion hosts, and why ngrok is essentially just remote port forwarding with a reverse proxy in front.

SSH tunnels from first principles – with a working self-hosted setup

Posted by ap_21 on Wednesday August 12, 2026 @12:19PM
from the arvindparekh.me dept.

https://www.arvindparekh.me/writing/port-forwarding

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Re:Free software scares normal people on Thursday October 30, 2025 @07:41PM (#45766761)

Reminds me of aws...

Exporing Reactive Databases – Convex.dev

Posted by ap_21 on Thursday October 16, 2025 @09:23AM
from the arvindparekh.tech dept.

https://www.arvindparekh.tech/writing/understanding-convex

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Re:Show HN: Vapor – A notepad that fades away as you type on Friday September 05, 2025 @12:59PM (#45140812)

I love the idea! It just creates a very minimalistic feeling and helps my mind not get overwhelmed with big chunks of text. However, the no-edits thing is a bit frustrating personally. A solution would be to allow edits as long as the text is visible, plus increase the timeline the text stays in the view (the pace in the homepage is ideal i feel).

Re:Show HN: I built a tool that creates and edits videos using text pr... on Saturday August 31, 2024 @01:24AM (#41406734)

Looks great! What are you using to generate the videos/captions?