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Creating a tic-tac-toe game in Clojurescript using Reagent

Whoosh, I am tired of JS all day long, let me try out something else. And yeah, I ended up here. Actually I was kinda playing around with Haskell before I reached here. It feels pretty good to have a

Take a picture of you every time you open your laptop

Take a photo every time the lid is open using the laptop camera. Hey, ever seen those time-lapse videos of plants growing up in a BBC documentary and thought wish I could do that for me. You

Publishing a console application to pypi

Let's say you have a very useful python script that you use and think other people might have some use out of it. One way is to just share the python snippet, but nah, that is too old school. Let us

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States scramble to gerrymander U.S. House districts after Trump sought edge in midterm elections

With the midterm election approaching, Republicans and Democrats in some states are scrambling for an advantage by redrawing their U.S. House districts to make it easier for their candidates to win.

How to do server side autocompletion (networking parts)

So, recently I had to create an autocompletion for a chat app at work. We did not need anything fancy for the first cut. Sounded like a simple project. This was in React I initially thought of

A bit more about configuring nginx (rewrite and alias)

We went through some basic stuff you need to understand to configure nginx in an old blog (https://blog.meain.io/2019/a-really-simple-nginx-conf/). After writing that I had to work on another project

Setting local files as New Tab page in Firefox

This will not work as of Firefox 72 So, I was going through r/startpages and checking out the startpages there. A lot of them looked pretty awesome and I decided to create one. And create, I did

Git never forgets, well kinda. `git-reflog`

Hi, I am gonna let you in on a little secret. Git never forgets what you do, you can mess up however you want and you will still have all your data available*. * as long as you have committed you

Accessing Kubernetes API from a Pod (RBAC)

This article describes in general how to set up permission for a Pod so that it will have access to Kubernetes API. My exact use case was that, I wanted to run a Pod which will watch a redis queue

Making sure you won't commit conflict markers

Recently I made a mistake of committing a conflict marker and pushing that code to Github. That is when I thought that I could have a easily avoided this if I had added a git-hook to warn me if the

How to create a SVG blob thingy in HTML Canvas

You might have seen a lot of colorful blobs everywhere these days. It is simple and looks pretty without much effort. You even have tools like blobmaker.app (https://www.blobmaker.app/) to help you

Table operations like in Nu shell in BASH

Hi, another installment of why people should just write more bash. I am not sure if you are aware of it. There is a new shell written in Rust called Nu Shell (https://www.nushell.sh/). One of the

Dynamic reverse proxy using nginx in Kubernetes

OK, first of all, let me make sure that you understand what we are trying to do here. Let us say that I have a lot of kubernetes services with names like below. This list may grow or shrink

Auto shutdown VM if no active SSH connections

Here is a simple workflow that I have extracted out into a blog. I generally have a VM on standby to offload some tasks over to that VM instead of running things on my laptop. One main example of

Mounting S3 bucket in docker containers on kubernetes

Another installment of me figuring out more of kubernetes. Full code available at meain/s3-mounter (https://github.com/meain/s3-mounter) So, I was working on a project which will let people login

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Zelenskyy says Ukrainian air force needs to improve as Russian drone barrages take a toll

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Friday he views the performance of the air force in some parts of the country as "unsatisfactory" and that steps are being taken to improve the response to large-scale Russian drone barrages of civilian areas.

Completely remove a file from git history

UPDATE: I did run into some pretty good documentation from GitHub here (https://docs.github.com/en/authentication/keeping-your-account-and-data-secure/removing-sensitive-data-from-a-repository). One

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U.S., Iranian officials in Oman for new talks as leaders look to avoid regional war

U.S. and Iranian diplomats arrived in Oman on Friday for negotiations aimed at preventing armed conflict, marking the first time the two nations have officially met for talks since May.

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The Ape Who Could Play Make-Believe

Kanzi, the bonobo, once again topples barriers between humans and great apes by demonstrating imagination, a cognitive capacity thought unique to humans The post The Ape Who Could Play Make-Believe

Copy file opened in macOS preview to working directory

Another random script I pieced together recently. I generally have a bunch of temp folders that I keep around for files to go in. And at times, I have pull some files into the current folder I am

Book Review: Diversifying Open Source - An Open Standards Playbook for Inclusive and Equitable Tech Projects by Paloma Oliveira ★★★★☆

It is refreshing to read a political polemic which contains useful actions the reader can take. Too many books about the social problems with technology end up being a diagnosis with no cure. Paloma

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UFD as a Trojan Horse for Bitcoin Adoption

The Unit of Fixed Denominator (UFD) is a mathematical correction to how prices are measured. By fixing the denominator of price measurement, UFD removes ideology from the conversation and allows Bitcoin to emerge naturally, not as a belief system, but as the only asset that satisfies the requirements of a valid unit of account.

What you need might not be Kubernetes

Let me get this out first. There is small chance that what you need is Kubernetes, but it is highly unlikely. What you need is not Kubernetes. What you need is scaleable deployments. If you haven't

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U.S. rejects flawed New START arms accord

The Trump administration rejected continuing to abide by the expired New START agreement limiting U.S. and Russian nuclear weapons, because it fails to curb Moscow's strategic arsenal and excludes China's rapid expansion of its nuclear forces, a senior State Department official said Friday.

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LISTEN: Why the Axis of Authoritarians is growing more dangerous

Brad Bowman, senior director of the Center on Military and Political Power at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, joins the show to talk about the Trump administration's National Defense Strategy, the future of the international rules-based order, and why the Axis of Authoritarians is growing more dangerous.