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I bought and hacked the Atari Mini Pong Jr. So You Don't Have To!

This story starts, as most of my hardware hacking stories do: a stupid impulse purchase. In this case, it’s the Atari mini pong Jr. I’m pretty sure (judging from stock levels) I’m the only one dumb...

GRANDcast.FM: User Auth & Podcast Subscribe Functionality

Building A GRANDstack Podcast App: Episode 2

So long, and thanks for all the fish, IPFS!

If you are using Orion, Siderus’ IPFS desktop client, you might have noticed that the app has not received any update during the last year. Around a year ago, after noticing an extensive amount of ...

Podcast Search GraphQL API With Neo4j And The Podcast Index

Building A GRANDstack Podcast App: Episode 1

Kubernetes Overview Diagrams

I started creating and sharing overviews of various Kubernetes objects on my Twitter. Some people requested to put them in a more convenient place for later use. This page is the result. Feel free ...

Building An Election Night Dashboard With Neo4j Graph Apps: Bloom, Charts, And Neomap

Using low code graph apps to build data visualizations with Neo4j.

Building A Location Aware Endpoint Using Neo4j And Cloudflare Workers

Using the new Jolt format with HTTP in Neo4j 4.2 with edge network handlers.

Setting up a load balancer with failover support in Azure

the cloud solves all your problems… Lately I was in need of a load balancer solution supporting the classic active-passive scenario. In other words, forward (ideally TCP) traffic to server A. If se...

Setting up an EKS cluster with IAM/IRSA integration

Introduction AWS’ IAM service is a powerful system to provide fine-grained control over AWS resources. Additionally it is integrated into several AWS services and EKS is no exception. Next to the c...

Backpack: helm charts but for Hashicorp Nomad

I recently decided to replace my k8s home cluster with a Hashicorp Nomad cluster on my 3 Raspberry Pis. When I was using it, I found myself writing a significant amount of HCL files, and I have bee...

Common Issues With Attaching Huge Capacity Hard Disks To Your Raspberry Pi

Hello, :focus-visible!

Good focus indication has often been neglected. But now we got :focus-visible which you should always implement on your site.

Server Side Includes, the hottest of the web in 1995

Maybe using old tech solutions is not that bad even as late as 2020?

Seeing Like an Algorithm

In my previous post on TikTok I discussed why its For You Page algorithm is the connective tissue that makes TikTok work. It is the bus on its motherboard that connects and closes all its feedback ...

I Want to Fix Goodreads

I use goodreads a lot because I like to read books and want to find more books to read. This morning I was reading a thread on hackernews on Sarah Manavis’s NewStatesman article and it reminds me o...

Cross-platform package.json scripts

Making your project work in all the environments, including Windows, is often desirable for maximum reach of a project.

My Simple Custom Blog Software

My Simple Custom Blog Software The pages on this site are generated by my own primitive blog engine. This post summarizes why I wrote my own, what my priorities for it were and how I went about ach...

Scary Terrorism Math

The August 4th explosions in Beirut were very jarring to me due to the loss of human life, and the numerous, direct videos that looked like something out my 80s youth nightmares. Hearing that it wa...

Guide to Optionals in Java 8

Simulating Solitaire

Like many of us, I’ve been spending the past 6 months living in a frightening emotional rollercoaster. Covid-19 has devastated so many lives, and the extent of the long-term increase in mental illn...