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  • Docker Swarm: Deploying Web Apps and Sites

    You can use Docker Swarm to deploy fully isolated web applications in to your cloud infrastructure, without also having to configure a web server in it too.

    April 14, 2019
  • Creating Multilevel Relationships with Laravel (Including “belongs to many through”!)

    Laravel only provide 2 relationship types out of the box, that supports more than one level of related models: hasOneThrough and hasManyThrough. They are not truly “multilevel” either, as they only support two levels.

    April 7, 2019
  • 2018 as a Google Local Guide

    January 12, 2019
  • A Set of Rules for Recreating a Person’s Consciousness in a Digital Medium

    About a month ago, I found a link to a post in a blog of IEEE in HackerNews. It discussed about the possibility of recreating one’s consciousness in a digital medium, after their death. The topic fascinated me, and it lead me to think a bit about it. I felt that the topic is a […]

    July 29, 2018
  • Docker Limit Concurrent Uploads and Downloads: For Unreliable Network Connections

    By default, Docker opens up multiple upload or download connections, so that it can move multiple layers of images at a given time. This is a performance boost, when used with a reliable connection. But if your network connectivity is not so reliable, doing one thing at a time and waiting for it to succeed […]

    May 23, 2018
  • Fixing not being able to log in to fresh MySQL installation on Ubuntu

    If you did a fresh installation on a new Ubuntu (~18.04) version, you may find that it is not possible to log in to MySQL with its root user, unless you do so as Ubuntu’s root user. Here’s how to fix it:

    May 19, 2018
  • Enabling Global MySQL Log in Ubuntu

    If you use (You should!) MySQL Prepared Statements, you may not be able to see how the final MySQL queries looks like, within your application, with all the bindings put into place. This is how to view them:

    May 18, 2018
  • Going with Defaults

    Who makes most of their computing devices? A person who customizes the heck out of their hardware or software, or a person who uses their devices as delivered from the manufacturer? Although no one can use a device without no customization at all, I have recently started to prefer to use my operating systems and […]

    September 1, 2017
  • Fix USB Drives after Using them as Startup Disks

    A problem I have encountered every time I use a USB drive as a Startup Disk, is that their block size get changed, and even gparted reports that it can’t fix the that. The following command will fix that.

    August 17, 2017
  • Enabling Bash Autocompletion in LXCs

    Bash autocompletion is disabled inside LXCs by default. This is how to enable it.

    May 6, 2017
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