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Jan 31, 2021 from Karl Bartel's Website

Adding Gemini Support With Just a Few Lines of Code

Adding Gemini Support With Just a Few Lines of Code The Gemini protocol nicely matches my preference for simplicity, so I want to start providing content for it to show my support. The first step f...

Jan 29, 2021 from Nadav Ami

Hacking My Car Stereo (Part 1)

I like my car, probably more then anyone should like a 2012 Hyundai Elantra. In 2021 terms it’s not the most technologically advance thing but it does most of what I need. While driving, I use my p...

Jan 24, 2021 from William Lyon's Blog

Getting Started With Next.js and GraphQL Authentication

Building A GRANDstack Podcast App: Episode 4

Jan 18, 2021 from Max Brenner

Kubernetes operators with Python #2: Implementing Controller

Introduction This post is the second part of a little blog series in which we are going through the complete process of implementing our own Kubernetes operator with Python. Previously we had a loo...

Jan 13, 2021 from Max Brenner

Kubernetes operators with Python #1: Creating CRDs

Introduction A lot of the core processes happening in a Kubernetes cluster are following the so called controller pattern. This pattern describes an ongoing monitoring of resources and reacting app...

Jan 09, 2021 from William Lyon's Blog

Parsing And Importing XML With Neo4j: Adding Episodes and Playlists To GRANDcast.FM Podcast App

Building A GRANDstack Podcast App: Episode 3

Jan 06, 2021 from Karl Bartel's Website

Tcl as a Shell Scripting Replacement

Tcl as a Shell Scripting Replacement Summary: I got interested in the old scripting language Tcl, rewrote my blog generator in it as an exercise and compare it to shell scripting. Motivation Every ...

Dec 30, 2020 from twilweb

Find top 10 large files in unix

If you want to find and print the top 10 largest files names (not directories) in a particular directory and its sub directories To restrict the search to the present directory use “-maxdepth 1” wi...

Dec 27, 2020 from Max Brenner

Github Actions workflow for merged/closed PRs

Lately I made some investigations on different events that you can use to trigger Github Actions workflows. I was especially interested in the pull request events as executing some clean up task as...

Dec 22, 2020 from Max Brenner

Screwing up remote access to dozens of servers within seconds

the power of infrastructure as code Back in the day (must have been around 2016) my team and I were using Ansible to provision our infrastructure. It’s a tool to configure servers in an automated a...

Dec 20, 2020 from HunterDavis.com

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...

Dec 11, 2020 from William Lyon's Blog

GRANDcast.FM: User Auth & Podcast Subscribe Functionality

Building A GRANDstack Podcast App: Episode 2

Dec 06, 2020 from Lorenzo Setale's Blog

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 ...

Dec 06, 2020 from William Lyon's Blog

Podcast Search GraphQL API With Neo4j And The Podcast Index

Building A GRANDstack Podcast App: Episode 1

Dec 01, 2020 from Max Brenner

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 ...

Nov 28, 2020 from William Lyon's Blog

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

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

Nov 20, 2020 from William Lyon's Blog

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.

Nov 19, 2020 from Max Brenner

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...

Nov 15, 2020 from Max Brenner

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...

Nov 12, 2020 from Lorenzo Setale's Blog

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...