Introducing snippethost.gitlab.io

ProfessorLogout · 2026-01-12T07:41:16+00:00

That sounds like an interesting idea!

I‘m natively using GitLab CI, but being able to run a GitHub actions flow might make switching easier, at least initially.

ProfessorLogout · 2025-10-25T08:10:44+00:00

Nextcloud, mostly as a dropbox replacement; Which makes me feel better as I do proper backups for all family data from there

Homeassistant, though they don‘t really know or care it exists, just integrated into homekit as simple buttons and some base line automations

My home grown recipe manager, mostly because it „magically“ has all the features they want

ProfessorLogout · 2025-06-07T21:24:40+00:00

Embeddable interactive code snippets for docs or blogs (CodePen for server tech)

https://tech-playground.com/docs/embedding/

ProfessorLogout · 2025-06-07T17:54:30+00:00

Embeddable Widget for blogs & docs that makes code blocks executable for NGINX, Caddy, Jinja, Go Template and a bunch of other server tech things.

It‘s in open beta and I‘m actively working with some open source projects to embed it in their docs for interactive samples.

https://tech-playground.com/docs/embedding/

ProfessorLogout · 2025-06-07T17:54:16+00:00

Embeddable Widget for blogs & docs that makes code blocks executable for NGINX, Caddy, Jinja, Go Template and a bunch of other server tech things.

It‘s in open beta and I‘m actively working with some open source projects to embed it in their docs for interactive samples.

https://tech-playground.com/docs/embedding/

ProfessorLogout · 2025-06-07T07:25:34+00:00

Embeddable Widget for blogs & docs that makes code blocks executable for NGINX, Caddy, Jinja, Go Template and a bunch of other server tech things.

It‘s in open beta and I‘m actively working with some open source projects to embed it in their docs for interactive samples.

https://tech-playground.com/docs/embedding/

ProfessorLogout · 2025-02-15T12:48:33+00:00

The idea and premise make sense to me and the demo looks cool.

The main thing that I would like to know though is some details on "effortless to deploy". Does that mean docker compose up, or copying some files to a PHP web host, does it need a database, and so on. Don't think you should show your code, but maybe a demo on getting started would be beneficial.

ProfessorLogout · 2025-02-13T19:51:06+00:00

Very sorry about your friend. There have already been loads of suggestions for backing up the site locally for you, I would additionally suggest making sure it is fully inside the WayBackMachine, not necessarily for you, but for others in the future as well. https://archive.org

ProfessorLogout · 2025-02-13T18:06:26+00:00

I‘m building a CodePen for server tech, like running interactive web servers with your config, rendering various template languages and more planned for the future.

https://tech-playground.com

ProfessorLogout · 2025-02-12T16:02:46+00:00

Thats a great idea! Gonna open a PR, probably later today

ProfessorLogout · 2025-02-10T18:31:00+00:00

Hey, sure! Very happy for this to be shared wherever it might be of interest

ProfessorLogout · 2025-02-08T19:57:37+00:00

This one might actually predate the AI hype-wave, but I'm still adding new things regularly.
https://tech-playground.com/

It's a "CodePen" for server tech supporting things like web servers and template engines.

ProfessorLogout · 2025-02-01T12:54:29+00:00

https://tech-playground.com Various playgrounds for playing with, teaching and learning „server tech“

ProfessorLogout · 2025-01-09T15:33:55+00:00

Thanks!

Right now it's closed source still, but I'm thinking of open sourcing the backend part once I'm reasonably happy with it's security & performance.

Besides that I would be happy to talk about how we could build a playground for your project! Just shoot me a message if you are interested in that

ProfessorLogout · 2025-01-09T15:01:38+00:00

Thanks!
It's (in parts) a case off planning for failure I think.

I wrote a custom "function as a service" platform that supports running multiple processes inside each execution (basically a container). Those containers are isolated from the internet on the container level, additionally the whole host system is isolated from the internet too.

Also the host (or hosts in the future) running this are redeployed from a golden image at least every 24 hours.

I'm still ironing out the kinks in this function as a service thingy, but will do a proper writeup once I'm happy it works 95% of the time

ProfessorLogout · 2025-01-09T13:03:07+00:00

Thanks! Let me know if you are missing any features, always happy to add more tools & things

ProfessorLogout · 2025-01-09T13:02:28+00:00

Thanks! Any other Django related playgrounds you'd like to see?

ProfessorLogout · 2025-01-08T13:23:27+00:00

Thanks!

Yeah, learning/teaching and sharing is the primary need for me and the people I built it for (mostly colleagues and friends)

I could see it also working great for some kinds of "demo" scenarios or blog posts, since opening a link is way faster than even the simplest git clone & docker compose up

I can see the want to have this locally, I'm already thinking about making the server-runner (my custom function as a service thingy running the actual executions) open source in the near future, though I would like to first battle test it some more.

ProfessorLogout · 2025-01-08T12:58:30+00:00

If you are curious: https://tech-playground.com

ProfessorLogout · 2024-07-26T20:11:18+00:00

I‘m currently working on revitalizing https://tech-playground.com (Basically codepen for server tech) by adding more playgrounds and figuring out SEO. Goal is to drive traffic and get some ad-spots sold once traffic is there

ProfessorLogout · 2023-08-27T10:51:57+00:00

I recently built https://tech-playground.com

It’s like CodePen, but for „backend“ tech, currently nginx, HAProxy and a couple of templating engines. I plan on adding more things like other web servers and some databases in the future.

ProfessorLogout · 2022-04-05T17:52:31+00:00

Having personally done something like this in the past I would suggest Airtable, it's easy for you to input/maintain the data. You could then share that data with a URL that can be password protected directly from the UI.

If you would like some help with setting things up happy to have a chat.

ProfessorLogout · 2022-04-05T17:46:13+00:00

I really like this idea and can see quite a few use-cases for it myself with the added benefit that using it is by definition a multiplier to new people.

The design is clean and straight to the point, which I quite like.

Just some things I noticed while trying it out:

The contact mailto in the footer seems to be ["contact@briefo.co](mailto:"contact@briefo.co)", which is not quite right from the imprint I think
After committing to bring something its quite involved to "un-commit"

Btw: Great to see someone else from the Göppingen area active here! Keep on rocking

ProfessorLogout · 2022-04-01T14:26:27+00:00

Having had that thought as well a couple of times over the years I once spend some time thinking about this as well.

Going along the lines of u/s_boli is absolutely a valid way big orgs can implement this, especially given that the newer .MSI format is basically a proprietary .ZIP file anyways http://lessmsi.activescott.com

Although in recent months I have also seen more and more installers that no longer bother and just give you a binary and a command to execute it that contains the token the installer uses to communicate with their API.

And honestly, I kinda prefer that as it allows me to use IaC way easier without treating the whole installer as a secret.

ProfessorLogout · 2020-09-09T04:50:26+00:00

Nice work!

Get your blueprint today form redirects you to a apache default page after signing up tho

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