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Prevent newsletter signup spam + how my newsletter got spammed
Ever wake up to 200 new newsletter signups and think “Wow, I finally made it!”
Yeah… me too. Until I realized none of them verified their email addresses. Not a single one.
My newsletters got spammed a couple of months ago, so I decided to write an article about:
What this is
Why it’s happening
How to stop it
If you’ve got a newsletter or any kind of public form on your site, this might save you a headache down the line.
Hope it helps!
Find broken links in your website - cralwr
github.com GitHub - 4rkal/crawlr: Find (and fix) broken links in your website
Find (and fix) broken links in your website. Contribute to 4rkal/crawlr development by creating an account on GitHub.
I was recently looking for broken links on my websites using ahrefs tool, but it kept asking for money. I realized how easy what they were doing is to implement, so I did it myself.
That's how I made crawlr. It will recursively search all of the urls on your website save them into a csv file with their status code and let you know how many urls are broken.
It is written in go and is extremely fast. It takes a couple of seconds to index a couple hundered of urls.
Give it a ⭐ if you like it
Deploying Go + Templ + HTMX + TailwindCSS to production
4rkal.com Deploying Go + Templ + HTMX + TailwindCSS to production | 4rkal's Dev Blog
In this article I will be showing you how to deploy the GoTTH stack (Go Templ htmx tailwind) to production.
If Linux is so great why isn't everyone using it?
4rkal.com If Linux is so great why isn't everyone using it? | 4rkal
Curious why more people aren’t using Linux if it’s so awesome? This article breaks down what Linux is, why it's great and how it secretly powers most of your favorite devices, from smartphones to servers.
How to build a URL shortener in Go
4rkal.com How to build a URL shortener in Go | 4rkal's Dev Blog
In this article will be showing you how to build a url shortener in go.
Deploy django to production
4rkal.com How to deploy django to production | 4rkal
In this article I will show you how to deploy django to production. We will be using nginx, gunicorn and cloudflare tunnels
I recently deployed my django app to production. So I thought I'd write a guide on how to do that.
Hope this helps some django people out
Any feedback is greatly appreciated!
Create a MultiBoot USB using ventoy
4rkal.com Create a MultiBoot USB using ventoy | 4rkal's blog
With ventoy, you don’t need to format the disk over and over, you just need to copy the ISO files to the USB drive and boot them directly. Whats ventoy? Ventoy is a free and open-source utility used for writing image files such as .iso, .wim, .img, .vhd(x), and .efi files onto storage media to creat...
Create a MultiBoot USB using ventoy
4rkal.com Create a MultiBoot USB using ventoy | 4rkal's blog
With ventoy, you don’t need to format the disk over and over, you just need to copy the ISO files to the USB drive and boot them directly. Whats ventoy? Ventoy is a free and open-source utility used for writing image files such as .iso, .wim, .img, .vhd(x), and .efi files onto storage media to creat...
Improving Go API request performance
4rkal.com How to Improve Go API request performance | 4rkal's Dev Blog
In this post I'll show you how I improved the performance of my go based cryptocurrency exchange aggregator. By making small changes, like using goroutines, switching JSON libraries and reusing HTTP handlers.
Yup rss is very scary
It's all about getting visitors to come back to a website. People consume so much content every single day, so it's extremely easy for your website to be forgotten in all of the madness.
By having a newsletter you get recurring visitors, not just fly by clicks.
Setup a selfhosted newsletter using listmonk
4rkal.com Setup a selfhosted newsletter using listmonk | 4rkal's blog
Listmonk is an amazing feature packed selfhosted email newsletter manager. It offers loads of features like analytics (clicks, opens, bounces), templates, public subscription pages, importing subscribers and much more!
I have been trying to setup my own newsletter for ages.
All of the platforms that I researched asked for stupid amounts of money for the services they where offering.
20$/month for 500 subscribers is not fair pricing mailchimp.
So I looked around the web for selfhosted solutions. Finally I found Listmonk, it's a selfhosted newsletter and mailing list manager, written in go and is extremely performant.
So I wrote an article on how to set that up!
I hope this helps some fellow selfhosters!
If you have any feedback please feel free to comment it bellow.
Great question
I always found setting up a git server from scratch to be quite confusing and I also like the webui that gitea offers.
But recently I have also started moving some of my github projects there so having a link (with a readme and everything) that I can share with others is important.
Silly question but what is the problem with gitea being for profit?
Selfhost your own gitea instance - selfhosted, lightweight github alternative
4rkal.com Selfhost your own gitea instance - selfhosted, lightweight github alternative | 4rkal's blog
In this article I’ll walk you through how you can run your own gitea instance. But first What is gitea? Gitea is a painless selfhosted Git service. It is written in Go and is extremely lightweight. I run a gitea instance on my Le Potato and it barely uses any resources. Why use gitea (vs GitHub, Git...
I've recently set up my own Gitea instance and I figured I'd share a simple guide on how to do it yourself. Hopefully this will be helpful to anyone looking to get started.
If you have any feedback please feel free to comment it bellow.
4rkal.com Raspberry pi security camera | 4rkal's blog
In this article i will show you how to setup a raspberry pi security camera using motion. In the end of this article you will have a fully functioning security camera with a live feed and motion detection. Requirements Raspberry pi or any other computer Web cam Any kind of debian based distro instal...
My Obsidian + Hugo blogging setup (Auto publishing with hotkeys)
4rkal.com My Obsidian + Hugo blogging setup | 4rkal's Dev Blog
In this post I go through how I have setup my Obsidian and Hugo blogging workflow. I use a single vault and auto publish my articles with hotkeys.
I have been using Obsidian for a few months now and I love it! Recently, I started blogging again and I wanted to share how I've integrated Obsidian with Hugo to make the process as smooth as possible.
My setup includes the following:
- Using a single Obsidian vault for everything.
- A blog post template that automatically includes all the necessary Hugo frontmatter.
- Keeping my personal vault folders private.
- Auto-publishing articles directly from Obsidian with a single hotkey.
- Hosting all my markdown files in a public GitHub repository, allowing others to propose changes.
This is the link to the article: https://4rkal.com/posts/obsidianhugo/
I hope this helps some fellow obsidian users!
If you have any feedback please feel free to comment it bellow.
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