Janez Troha

Principal engineer writing about networks, radios, databases, and the things that fall over at 3am. Principal engineer at Niteo. Hacker from the crib, mostly by taking things apart. Electronics, mountain biking, and FPV when I am away from a keyboard.

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2025-10 MeshCore SAR
2024-10 Protect Your Website with Cloudflare’s Web Application Firewall (WAF)
2024-08 Building a DIY Security Camera Display Using Raspberry Pi, i3 and MPV
2019-04 AWS Gotchas
2019-02 Thoughts on an asynchronous work day
2017-03 Using strace to figure out what is crashing MySQL

Projects

MeshCore SAR

Off-grid LoRa coordination for search and rescue: messaging, GPS positioning, and offline tactical mapping over MeshCore radios.

Flutter · LoRa · 2025

GRAMPS Viewer

Reads genealogy data from Gramps XML files, tracks what changed, and handles several sources at once.

Flutter · iOS, Android, Linux · 2025

Writing

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2025-10-18

MeshCore SAR

MeshCore SAR turns phones and MeshCore radios into a resilient field coordination system with messaging, GPS tracking, and offline tactical mapping.

2024-10-10

Protect Your Website with Cloudflare’s Web Application Firewall (WAF)

2024-08-22

Building a DIY Security Camera Display Using Raspberry Pi, i3 and MPV

2019-04-12

AWS Gotchas

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