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  • New Recipes Learned!

    Some after thoughts: 🙂

    January 31, 2023
    Geek at Cook
    Cooking, Japanese Curry, Spaghetti
  • A Wordle-like Game but in Telegram

    It’s been a while and this game I built is quite stable now. A few things about this game(I called it word squad): 🙂

    January 23, 2023
    Games!
    Telegram, Wordle
  • Cloud SQL MySQL: Best Password is No Password

    Security for web applications has come a long way. In the case of database passwords, there is a lot of approaches to keep them safe: But isn’t it the best if there’s no need for a password at all? With IAM authentication for Cloud SQL, the password can be avoided after all. Here’s how to […]

    January 12, 2023
    Systems Admin
    GCP, kubernetes, mysql
  • Fixed an A2 Error on ASUS Rampage V Extreme

    I have been a bit obsessed with PCs since my parents bought me my first PC, a 386DX with 4MB of memory, almost 30 years ago. Recently one of my friend was selling his crypto mining rig, and I bought the essential parts to start building a new server: I bought a new fan for […]

    December 23, 2022
    Hardwares
    ASUS, Fedora
  • How to Self-Host a Mastodon Instance in Kubernetes

    TL;DR: Instead of the official installation including setting up Ruby, nginx, systemd service, etc., I found it more comfortable to install and run a Mastodon instance using some YAML files. Just in case, what is Mastodon anyway? I used kustomize to manage and generate Kubernetes manifests for a fully functional Mastodon instance. Please see my […]

    December 8, 2022
    Opensource, Systems Admin
    kubernetes, Mastodon
  • Cheat Sheet: From SQL to NoSQL

    Recently I was fascinated by MongoDB’s flexibility to change data structure on the fly, in contrast there will need a ALT TABLE SQL statement for any schema change in a SQL database. Here I make a list of typical operations and how they are done in both SQL and NoSQL(in my case, MongoDB) flavours. Create […]

    December 3, 2022
    Python & Frameworks
    MongoDB
  • A Simple RabbitMQ Consumer with Python

    Here’s a very simple RabbitMQ consumer in Python, deployed in a Kubernetes cluster. I used this to act as a consumer for testing purposes. First the Python code: The above code can be saved as a ConfigMap in the cluster: Then the Kubernetes manifest: At last this can be simply deployed with 🙂

    November 30, 2022
    Systems Admin
    Python, RabbitMQ
  • How to Add Extra Scrape Configuration for Prometheus

    After some recent updating to my home server running Ubuntu Server 20.04, the InfluxDB server suddenly stopped working. I’ve used InfluxDB + Telegraf for many years, the combination worked very well without much maintenance. But as I have deployed some new-ish stuff – Prometheus, Loki, etc. in my garage Kubernetes lab, I think it’s time […]

    November 27, 2022
    Systems Admin
    prometheus
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