As part of his work for Ambient Activity Daniel experimented with building Electron under Yocto in order to build a new firmware for the ABBY. This turns out to be impractical for a small development team, but he developed some useful bits in the process.
Due to OpenWrt issue 13873 the author needed a version of the mountpoint command for OpenWrt. Since they wanted to learn ucode, they coded the command in this interesting ECMAscript-like language1. This may be moot as enabling the busybox mountpoint applet could be more space-efficient, but the author enjoyed the exercise.
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For Power BI, if your data source does not already have a date dimension table, Microsoft strongly recommends adding one in Power Query M-code. Here we show how to do that for a fiscal year date table.
When using markdownlint-cli/markdownlint-cli2 or the vscode-markdownlint extension for VSCode, one may wish to ignore a particular line. Here is a cheap way to do that using a shortcode.
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Having a demo/test site embedded in a Hugo module causes large bandwidth consumption during its normal use as a module. We split the site and module into separate git repos, but keep a deploy as part of the CI process.
When using Docker to containerize internal services like Samba, LLMNR, or mDNS a.k.a Bonjour one may find that the standard Docker model of using specific unicast ports forwards, is insufficient.
How Artificial Intelligence can win at board games.
Setting up an email relay that aliases addresses in various domains to a specific offsite user doesn’t have to mean backscatter. Here is one solution.
About a member of the Mancala family of games known as Oware or Wari, with a look at an old Commodore 64 version as well as modern versions.
You may realize that you really wish you could start the Nextcloud instance from scratch without the hassle of a reinstall.
At some point you may need to upsize your PostgreSQL server, particular if you have implemented one on a old Raspberry Pi.
Setting up your own local Nextcloud can be useful for a number of reasons.
This article describes setting up a Raspberry Pi Model B+ as a private Gitea (lightweight Git hosting) server.
Raspberry Pi Model B+ as a PostgreSQL server with external storage.
Linux LVM thin pools and volumes initially seem to be a great way maximize the use of hard drive space by using only the space that is actually allocated to files. There is a major fly in the ointment though. Thin pools cannot be reduced in size.
You may find yourself in need of a ‘bare metal’ server. If the workload is not too demanding, a Raspberry Pi can be a good choice.
For small deployments the Raspberry Pi is for servers.